1. (imp. & p. p.) of Interrupt.

2. (a.) Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

3. (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

broken broken off chopped-off choppy decousu disconnected discontinued discontinuous discrete disjunctive episodic fitful herky-jerky incoherent intermittent irregular jagged jerky noncontinuous nonlinear nonsequential nonserial nonuniform parenthetic patchy scrappy snatchy spasmodic spotty suspended unconnected unjoined unsuccessive