Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

half-broken

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English

Syllables
half-bro-ken
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Halfway or partially broken; somewhat broken.

Etymology

From Middle English *half-broken, from Old English healfbrocen (“half-broken”), equivalent to half- + broken. Compare Dutch half gebroken (“half-broken”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more half-broken (comparative) most half-broken (superlative)

Questions

What does half-broken mean?
Halfway or partially broken; somewhat broken.
Where does half-broken come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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