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)

Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 33 , url = , passage = ‘ “It would be most irregular' Grandpa!” says Miss Cecily frowning and tapping her foot. “Well, we’re a pretty ' irregular family so that’s neither here nor there,” says the old man, impish like. [...] ’ }}

Of a surface, rough.

Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.

*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore

, volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular , nomadic type of nocturnal migration.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}

Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.

Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).