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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by continuous or uninterrupted extension in space or time or sequence; "cars in an unbroken procession"; "the unbroken quiet of the afternoon" [ant: broken]
2: not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"
3: (of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land" [syn: unplowed, unploughed, unbroken] [ant: ploughed, plowed]
4: (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept" [syn: unbroken, kept] [ant: broken, unkept]
5: not broken; whole and intact; in one piece; "fortunately the other lens is unbroken" [ant: broken]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century not broken: as a. not violated b. whole, intact c. not subdued ; untamed; especially not trained for service or use <unbroken colts> d. continuous <miles of unbroken forest> e. not plowed f. not disorganized <advanced in unbroken ranks>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not broken. 2 not tamed (an unbroken horse). 3 not interrupted (unbroken sleep). 4 not surpassed (an unbroken record). Derivatives: unbrokenly adv. unbrokenness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unbroken Un*bro"ken, a. Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something is unbroken, it is continuous or complete and has not been interrupted or broken. ...an unbroken run of 38 match wins... We've had ten days of almost unbroken sunshine... = uninterrupted ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Round, full, complete, entire. 2. Sound, profound, undisturbed, fast, uninterrupted, continuous. 3. Inviolate, unbetrayed, unviolated.

Moby Thesaurus

accordant, alike, arrowlike, articulated, automatic, balanced, bright, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, concatenated, connected, consistent, consonant, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, correspondent, cyclical, dead straight, direct, downy, endless, entire, equable, equal, even, featureless, flat, fresh, gapless, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, harmless, homogeneous, horizontal, immediate, immutable, in a line, incessant, intact, interminable, invariable, inviolate, irreversible, joined, jointless, leiotrichous, level, lineal, linear, linked, machine gun, measured, mechanical, methodic, mint, monolithic, monotonous, never-ending, nonstop, of a piece, one-way, ordered, orderly, oscillating, perennial, perfect, periodic, perpetual, persistent, plane, pristine, pulsating, rapid, rectilineal, rectilinear, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitive, right, robotlike, round-the-clock, ruler-straight, running, scatheless, seamless, serried, smooth, smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, sound, stable, staccato, steadfast, steady, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straightaway, straightforward, straightway, streamlined, stuttering, suave, sustained, systematic, true, twenty-four-hour, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbruised, unceasing, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconquered, uncurved, undamaged, undefaced, undeflected, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, undeviating, undifferentiated, undistorted, undiversified, unending, unenthralled, unfaded, ungoverned, unharmed, unhurt, unidirectional, uniform, unimpaired, uninjured, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unquelled, unrelieved, unremitting, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspoiled, unstopped, unsubdued, unsubject, unswerving, untamed, untorn, untouched, unturned, unvanquished, unvaried, unvarying, unwithered, unworn, upright, vertical, vibrating, virgin