interrupted

Speech parts

1. interrupted - Adjective

3. interrupted - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Interrupt

Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fitful stop break broken stopped suspended delayed occasional discrete irregular interrupt cease checked disturbed disrupted
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Antonyms

diurnal continued direct constant useful daily
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Phrases with the word

interrupted circuit interrupted cadence interrupted hornet fly interrupted rocksnail be interrupted interrupted sleep

Examples

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. Jules Renard

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Rod Serling

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. George Bernard Shaw

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. George Eliot

For me, the Bild-Dichtung[image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements. Günter Brus

Close letter words and terms

interruptability interruptable interruptant interrupted cadence interrupted circuit interrupted clubmoss