Broken

//ˈbɹəʊ.kn̩//

Synonyms for "broken" (451 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (91)

Strong matches (135)

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Adjective(39 words)

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fucked up fuckered up fugazi hard up impecunious impoverished in need indigent inoperative insolvent intermissive intermittent jacked up janky jiggered kaput knackered licked low-quality

Adjective(5 words)

disordered humbled humiliated impoverished low

Related words (225)

Adjective(81 words)

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lurching made to grovel mangled mastered meek mild mutilated nonadherent nonadhesive noncoherent noncohesive noncontinuous nonlinear nonsequential nonserial nonuniform obedient on the blink on the fritz on the rocks

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open order out of commission out of condition out of gear out of joint out of kelter out of kilter out of order out of repair out of tune out of whack overthrown pacific parenthetic parenthetical patchy peaceable piece pimply pitted pocky potholed prostrate pulverized put down quelled quiet rambling rank ravaged reduced rent ripply rough-cast rough-grained rough-hewn roughcast roughhewn ruffled ruined ruinous ruptured rutted rutty scalded scorched scrappy shagged shaggy shattered shivered slashed slit smashed snatchy spasmatic spasmic spasmodic spastic splintered split spoiled sporadic spotty sprung staggering stricken subdued subjugated suppressed suspended tame tamed tenuous textured the worse for torn trained transgressed unadhesive uncertain uncoherent uncohesive unconnected unconsolidated undone unequal uneven unjoined unkempt unlevel unmethodical unmetrical unpolished unrefined unregular unrhythmical unsettled unsmooth unsteady unsuccessive unsystematic untenacious ununiform vanquished variable veering violated wandering wasted wavering weakened wimpled wobbling wobbly worse worse off worsened wrecked

Adjective(4 words)

rugged unkept upset wiped out

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

13 relation types

More general

2 entries

deteriorated fragmentary

More specific

13 entries

burst cracked crazed destroyed divided heartbroken housebroken jailbroken riven shattered smashed split wrecked

Antonyms

1 entries

unbroken

Synonyms

6 entries

broke broken in busted disordered humiliated impoverished

Related terms

5 entries

damaged drunk leaking out of order piece

at location

2 entries

repair shop trash

dbpedia genre

2 entries

alternative metal industrial metal

derived

70 entries

Broken Bow Broken Dam Broken Head Broken Hill Landolt broken ring Night of Broken Glass a broken clock is right twice a day breach break broke broken Britain broken English broken arrow broken bar broken bird broken breast

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form of

1 entries

break

has context

10 entries

bone or body part contract derogatory gaming line meteorology person promise etc slang sports

is a

2 entries

album television episode

related to

21 entries

bankrupt breach broke damaged defeated destroyed discontinuous dispirited eighth fractured fragmented imperfect injured obscure overpowered ruptured

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similar

34 entries

broken field broken-field damaged dashed destroyed discontinuous disorganised disorganized distributed dotted fitful halting humble

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Translations

315 translations across 61 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

gebreek adj (not whole; fragmented)

Arabic

4 entries

مفصول adj (disconnected)
مَكسور adj (not whole; fragmented)
مَكسور adj (not whole; fragmented)
مَكْسُور adj (not whole; fragmented)

Armenian

4 entries

անսարք adj (not working properly)
կոտրված adj (not whole; fragmented)
ջարդված adj (not whole; fragmented)
փչացած adj (not working properly)

Aromanian

2 entries

aruptu adj (not whole; fragmented)
frãmtu adj (not whole; fragmented)

Bulgarian

4 entries

повреден adj (not working properly)
прекъснат adj (disconnected)
разбит adj (not working properly)
разкъсан adj (of skin: split or ruptured)

Catalan

4 entries

abrupte adj (uneven of relief, cut by valleys)
accidentat adj (uneven of relief, cut by valleys)
avariat adj (not working properly)
derrotat adj (completely defeated and dispirited)

Cebuano

1 entries

guba adj (not whole; fragmented)

Chamicuro

1 entries

katsala'taka adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᏲᏨᎢ adj (not whole; fragmented)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

specifically as in 虛線 /虚线 adj (of a line: dashed)
壞 /坏 adj (not whole; fragmented)
打破的 adj (not whole; fragmented)
破碎 adj (not whole; fragmented)

Cornish

1 entries

brew adj (not whole; fragmented)

Czech

1 entries

rozbitý adj (not working properly)

Danish

4 entries

afbrudt adj (disconnected)
brækket adj (not whole; fragmented)
brækket adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)
defekt adj (not working properly)

Dutch

4 entries

afgebroken adj (disconnected)
blut adj (having no money)
defect adj (not working properly)
gebroken adj (not whole; fragmented)

Esperanto

4 entries

difektita adj (not working properly)
disrompita adj (not whole; fragmented)
proksimuma adj (poorly spoken)
rompita adj (not working properly)

Faroese

1 entries

brotin adj (not whole; fragmented)

Finnish

4 entries

epäkunnossa adj (not working properly)
katkennut adj (disconnected)
katkoviivainen adj (of a line: dashed)
melko pilvinen adj (meteorology: five eighths to seven eighths obscured by clouds)

French

4 entries

approximatif adj (poorly spoken)
brisé adj (not whole; fragmented)
brisé adj (completely defeated and dispirited)
buggé adj (of software: badly designed or implemented)

Friulian

1 entries

rot adj (not whole; fragmented)

Galician

2 entries

crebado adj (not whole; fragmented)
quebrado adj (not whole; fragmented)

Georgian

2 entries

გატეხილი adj (not whole; fragmented)
გაფუჭებული adj (not working properly)

German

4 entries

aufgerissen adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
blank adj (having no money)
defekt adj (not working properly)
gebrochen adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)

Greek

4 entries

άφραγκος adj (having no money)
κομμένος adj (disconnected)
σκισμένο adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
σπασμένος adj (not whole; fragmented)

Hebrew

2 entries

רָצוּץ adj (poorly spoken)
שבור adj (not whole; fragmented)

Hungarian

4 entries

elromlott adj (not working properly)
felhasadt adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
felszakadt adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
hibás adj (poorly spoken)

Indonesian

1 entries

rusak adj (not working properly)

Ingrian

2 entries

poikkinain adj (not whole; fragmented)
rikkinäin adj (not whole; fragmented)

Irish

4 entries

briste adj (not whole; fragmented)
briste adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)
briste adj (not working properly)
briste adj (poorly spoken)

Italian

1 entries

rotto adj (not whole; fragmented)

Japanese

3 entries

割れた adj (not whole; fragmented)
壊れた adj (not whole; fragmented)
故障した adj (not working properly)

Khmer

1 entries

បែក adj (not whole; fragmented)

Korean

2 entries

깨진 adj (not whole; fragmented)
부서진 adj (not whole; fragmented)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

алсыз adj (not whole; fragmented)
бузук adj (not whole; fragmented)
бузулган adj (not whole; fragmented)
жараланган adj (not whole; fragmented)

Latin

2 entries

frāctus adj (not whole; fragmented)
ruptus adj (not whole; fragmented)

Limburgish

2 entries

kepót adj (not whole; fragmented)
kepót adj (not working properly)

Macedonian

1 entries

скршен adj (not whole; fragmented)

Malay

2 entries

pecah adj (not whole; fragmented)
rosak adj (not working properly)

Marathi

4 entries

खंडित adj (not whole; fragmented)
खराब adj (of software: badly designed or implemented)
तुटक्या adj (poorly spoken)
तुटलेला adj (not whole; fragmented)

Māori

4 entries

koera adj (meteorology: five eighths to seven eighths obscured by clouds)
kore moni adj (having no money)
mawera adj (not whole; fragmented)
pakaru adj (not whole; fragmented)

Old English

1 entries

brocen adj (not whole; fragmented)

Persian

4 entries

ترک خورده adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)
خراب adj (not working properly)
خراب adj (of software: badly designed or implemented)
شکست داده شده adj (completely defeated and dispirited)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

kaputt (nds) adj (not working properly)

Polish

4 entries

kreskowany adj (of a line: dashed)
potłuczony adj (not whole; fragmented)
powyłamywany adj (not whole; fragmented)
połamany adj (not whole; fragmented)

Portuguese

4 entries

destruído adj (completely defeated and dispirited)
duro adj (having no money)
estragado adj (not working properly)
fraturado adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)

Romagnol

1 entries

rót adj (not whole; fragmented)

Romanian

4 entries

de baltă adj (poorly spoken)
falit adj (having no money)
frânt adj (not whole; fragmented)
lefter adj (having no money)

Russian

1 entries

сло́манный adj (not whole; fragmented)

Sanskrit

1 entries

भग्न adj (not whole; fragmented)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

briste adj (not whole; fragmented)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

razbijen adj (not whole; fragmented)
slomljen adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)

Sicilian

1 entries

ruttu adj (not whole; fragmented)

Slovene

2 entries

pokvarjen adj (not working properly)
zlomljen adj (completely defeated and dispirited)

Spanish

4 entries

averiado adj (not working properly)
bruja adj (having no money)
chapurreado adj (poorly spoken)
cortado adj (of skin: split or ruptured)

Sundanese

2 entries

pateuh adj (not working properly)
rejét adj (not working properly)

Swedish

4 entries

brusten adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
bruten adj (not whole; fragmented)
bruten adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)
bruten adj (completely defeated and dispirited)

Tagalog

4 entries

bali-bali adj (not whole; fragmented)
bali-bali adj (of a line: dashed)
basag adj (not whole; fragmented)
sira adj (not working properly)

Tok Pisin

4 entries

bruk adj (not whole; fragmented)
bruk adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)
bruk adj (of skin: split or ruptured)
bruk adj (not working properly)

Turkish

3 entries

bozuk adj (not working properly)
kırık adj (not whole; fragmented)
kırık adj (having the bone in pieces, fractured)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ла́маний adj (poorly spoken)

Vietnamese

3 entries

bể adj (not whole; fragmented)
hỏng adj (not working properly)
vỡ adj (not whole; fragmented)

Yiddish

2 entries

צעבראָכן adj (not whole; fragmented)
צעבראָכן adj (not working properly)

Sample sentences

31 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Aaah!! My computer is broken!

Source: tatoeba (1910)

Throw away the chairs whose legs are broken.

Source: tatoeba (19896)

Don't step on the broken glass.

Source: tatoeba (21238)

The sea ice is highly variable - frozen solid during cold, calm weather and broken up in large areas of open water during storms.

Source: tatoeba (22233)

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