Meaning & use
broken
Damaged, shattered, or no longer working as it should.
See it in a sentence
The window was broken during the storm and needed to be replaced.
He tried to fix the broken printer before the deadline.
A note on using this word
Broken can also describe imperfect speech, as in 'broken English,' meaning spoken with noticeable grammatical errors.
Words with a similar meaning
damagedshattered
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
intactwhole
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