UNBROKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbroken mean? 

• UNBROKEN (adjective)
  The adjective UNBROKEN has 5 senses:

1. marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence

2. not subdued or trained for service or use

3. (of farmland) not plowed

4. (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

5. not broken; whole and intact; in one piece

  Familiarity information: UNBROKEN used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBROKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence

Context example:

the unbroken quiet of the afternoon

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 2

Meaning:

Not subdued or trained for service or use

Context example:

unbroken colts

Similar:

untamed; wild (in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of farmland) not plowed

Synonyms:

unbroken; unploughed; unplowed

Context example:

unbroken land

Similar:

fallow (left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season)

untilled (not plowed or harrowed or hoed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

Synonyms:

kept; unbroken

Context example:

promises kept

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 5

Meaning:

Not broken; whole and intact; in one piece

Context example:

fortunately the other lens is unbroken

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)

 Context examples 

They extended in an unbroken wall right across the background.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After a couple of minutes' unbroken silence, Henry, turning to Catherine for the first time since her mother's entrance, asked her, with sudden alacrity, if Mr. and Mrs. Allen were now at Fullerton?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Martin made no further attempt at conversation, and for several blocks unbroken silence lay upon them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But we preserved an unbroken silence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The silence was unbroken save by the cries of their pursuers, that, unseen, hung upon their rear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nothing could restore him with a faith unbroken—a character unblemished, to Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

To the left was a hard skyline unbroken by a sail.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team stood harnessed to the sled in an unbroken line, ready for the trail.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I opened the glass-door in the breakfast-room: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)