unbroken
10
3.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈbroʊkən/
:
ininterrumpido
- However, to do this effectively requires a lifetime of specialized study and long periods of unbroken service.
- an unbroken chain
- an unbroken run
- an unbroken line
And a maker wants unbroken swaths of time for problem solving.
- And a maker wants unbroken swaths of time for problem solving.
- But if we needed to, we could have shot the entire thing and, and one unbroken cut.
- That would mean that there's no accrued wisdom from the unbroken chain of survivors that make up the fact that you're here right now.
- Five May the circle be unbroken by and by, Lord by and graves prepared, entered, complete.
- And this book distills, yes, teachings of the Bible, of the Torah, of Jewish thought of literally an unbroken chain of thousands of years.
- It's one vast unbroken continent at present.
- And also there's very few people who have lasted for so long unbroken at doing it.
- And, you know, there is a, you know, an unbroken kind of chain of essential experience that we consider to be part and parcel of who we are.
- So we are all the descendants of this long and unbroken chain of ancestors who all of whom succeeded in selecting infertile mate.
- You can be oblivious to the sound for long while, then in a second of taking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time.
Examples
-
this vast belt of trees forms an almost unbroken circle around the north of the globe
-
The workers, trembling but silent, cower inside the unbroken circle of soldiers.
Fiction book (1998) -
As long as this line remains unbroken, she cannot enter.
-
What are you doing? - Looking for an unbroken line.
-
But if I can find an unbroken line, I might be able to send a telegraph.
-
It's one vast unbroken continent at present.
-
The annual war games have been an unbroken tradition here at Kent for over 50 years.
-
The city has embraced an unbroken chain of civilizations dating back more than 4,000 years.
Academic text (2004) -
Even now, they linger like grains of sand... the memories of an unbroken line of battles.
-
The annual war games have been an unbroken tradition here at Kent for over 50 years.
Synonyms
198
2.5
Happens all the time without stopping
141
3.7
Without a break or gap, for example in a curve
42
1.3
Continuing without any stops or pauses
30
6.3
Happening all the time without stopping
28
4.2
Continuing without stopping or being disturbed
22
3.9
Lasting a long time without stopping or getting weaker
9
4.9
Not stopping or pausing for a long time
1
4.2
Continuing for a long time without fading
1
6.0
Continuing without stopping
Happening without stopping
Continuing without any break
Happening without stopping for a period of time
Continuing without stopping
Antonyms
How Continuous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unbroken is made of un- meaning 'not' and broken from 'break', where 'break' can mean a stop, so an unbroken silence, line, or series has no stops and continues without interruption.