| Interrupted 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. Thesaurus Entries 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 |