broken

Meaning

Adjective

• Fragmented, in separate pieces.
• Breached; violated; not kept.
• Non-functional; not functioning properly.
• Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.
• Having no money; bankrupt, broke.
• Uneven.
• Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.

Related

Similar words

• violated
• rekt
• OP, unbalanced

Narrower meaning words

• heartbroken
• housebroken
• jailbroken

Origin

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