Meaning

17 senses
  1. Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    One recent morning the team had to replace a broken weather research station.

  2. Fragmented; in separate pieces.

    Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

    My arm is broken!

    The ground was littered with broken bones.

    gebrochen

  3. Split or ruptured.

    A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken.

    aufgerissen

  4. Dashed; made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

    gestrichelt

  5. Interrupted; not continuous.

  6. Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

    Tomorrow: broken skies.

  7. Having periods of silence scattered throughout; not regularly continuous.

  8. Breached; violated; not kept.

    broken promises of neutrality

    broken vows

  9. Non-functional; not functioning properly.

    I think my doorbell is broken.

  10. Non-functional; not functioning properly.

    Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

    unterbrochen

  11. (informal)Badly designed or implemented.

    This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.

    gebrochen, zerstückelt

    ла́манийlámanyj

  12. Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being produced by a non-native speaker.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
poorly spoken:
Русский
By meaning 1
not whole; fragmented:
Deutsch
By meaning 11
not whole; fragmented:
not working properly:
having the bone in pieces, fractured:
of skin: split or ruptured:
of a line: dashed:
disconnected:
of software: badly designed or implemented:
completely defeated and dispirited:
having no money:
uneven of relief, cut by valleys:
sports and gaming: very powerful:

Origin

From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukan

From Middle English broken, from Old English brocen, ġebrocen, from Proto-Germanic *brukanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”). Cognate with Dutch gebroken (“broken”), German Low German broken (“broken”), German gebrochen (“broken”). Morphologically broke + -n.

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Forms

more broken, most broken
Comparativemore broken Lesson
Superlativemost broken Lesson

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Synonyms

147 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

50 related words

See also

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