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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective interrupted has 2 senses
- interrupted(s = adj.all) Array - discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
- interrupted(s = adj.all) fitful, off-and-on - intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
CIDE DICTIONARY
interrupted, a.
- Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped. [1913 Webster]
- Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
interrupted
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, unsuccessiveROGET THESAURUS
interrupted
Discontinuity
N discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.
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