broken
/ˈbroʊ·kən/ adj (DISCOURAGED)Definition
› extremely discouraged or sad: After his wife's death, he seemed to be a broken man. My mom said my uncle had a broken heart (= was sad because a romance had ended).
(Definition of broken adj (DISCOURAGED) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “broken”
Word of the Day
a cloud on the horizon
something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
