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UNBROKEN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not broken; whole and intact; in one piece
Example:
fortunately the other lens is unbroken
Classified under:
Also:
undamaged (not harmed or spoiled; sound)
uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)
perfect (being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish)
sound (financially secure and safe)
Attribute:
integrity; unity; wholeness (an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting)
Antonym:
broken (physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded
Example:
promises kept
Synonyms:
kept; unbroken
Classified under:
Domain category:
contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)
Antonym:
broken ((especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence
Example:
the unbroken quiet of the afternoon
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
solid (uninterrupted in space; having no gaps or breaks)
uninterrupted (having undisturbed continuity)
Also:
continuous; uninterrupted (continuing in time or space without interruption)
Antonym:
broken (not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of farmland) not plowed
Example:
unbroken land
Synonyms:
unbroken; unploughed; unplowed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fallow (left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season)
untilled (not plowed or harrowed or hoed)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Not subdued or trained for service or use
Example:
unbroken colts
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
untamed; wild (in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated)
Context examples:
In the course of the spring she must return their civilities by one very superior party—in which her card-tables should be set out with their separate candles and unbroken packs in the true style—and more waiters engaged for the evening than their own establishment could furnish, to carry round the refreshments at exactly the proper hour, and in the proper order.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
By not one of the circle was he listened to with such unbroken, unalloyed enjoyment as by his wife, who was really extremely happy to see him, and whose feelings were so warmed by his sudden arrival as to place her nearer agitation than she had been for the last twenty years.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He traveled a long while, nearly eight-and-twenty years, and had a hard time of it, till he came to the palace of a good old king, who had offered a reward to anyone who could tame and train a fine but unbroken colt, of which he was very fond.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And as he followed, comprehendingly and critically, he noted the unbroken field of the other's knowledge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The gate of Fort Challenger had been untouched, the walls were unbroken, and yet it had been visited by some strange and powerful creature in our absence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So, when they stopped to bait the horse, and ate and drank and enjoyed themselves, I could touch nothing that they touched, but kept my fast unbroken.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For a time each blow brought a yelp from him; but fear passed into terror, until finally his yelps were voiced in unbroken succession, unconnected with the rhythm of the punishment.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
There was a rustle among the bowmen, but when Sir Nigel looked up at them no man stood forward from his fellows, but the four lines of men stretched unbroken as before.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But as often as he gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for John Thornton drew him back to the fire again.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
