Adjective

(en adjective)

Fragmented, in separate pieces.

# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

My arm is broken !

the ground was littered with broken bones

# (label) Split or ruptured.

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

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

# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.

#* (rfdate), , White Fang :

Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.

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

Tomorrow: broken skies.

Breeched; violated; not kept.

broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

I think my doorbell broken .

# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

# Badly designed or implemented.

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

# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.

# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.

Oh man! That is just broken !

Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .

Having no money; bankrupt, broke.

(en)

(label) Uneven.

* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:

All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.

Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

Adjective

(en adjective)

In the state of a solid; not fluid.

Large, massive.

Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

Strong or unyielding.

a solid foundation

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, year=2012 , date=June 2 , author= Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Belgium , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.}}

(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

That's a solid plan.

Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid .

I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

Hearty; filling.

a solid meal

Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.

* Milton

the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer

* Dryden

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

* J. A. Symonds

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

Sound; not weakly.

a solid constitution of body

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.

The delegation is solid for a candidate.

Of a single color throughout.

John painted the walls solid white.

He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

A solid''' foot contains 1,728 '''solid inches.