different between unwroken vs unbroken

English

Etymology

un- +? wroken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n????k?n/

Adjective

unwroken (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Unavenged.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, lxvi:

     Yet all this season were we willing blind, / Offended, unreveng'd; wrong'd, but unwroken.

   • a. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Aeneid book 2

     We shall not all unwroken die this day.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?b?o?kn?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?b???kn?/
• Hyphenation: un?bro?ken

Etymology 1

From Middle English unbroken, from Old English un?ebrocen (“unbroken”), equivalent to un- +? broken. Cognate with Dutch ongebroken (“unbroken”), German Low German unbroken (“unbroken”), German ungebrochen (“unbroken”).

Adjective

unbroken (not comparable)

1. Whole, not divided into parts.

   After the vase had fallen down the flight of stairs we were amazed to find it still unbroken.

2. Of a horse, not tamed.

   There is something majestic about the spirit of an unbroken mustang as it runs wild across the prairie.

3. Continuous, without interruption.

   The team's unbroken winning streak was a record.

Synonyms

• (whole, not divided into parts): complete, entire, in one piece, undivided, whole
• (describing a horse): untamed, wild
• (continuous): continuous, uninterrupted

Antonyms

• (whole): broken, shattered, smashed, split
• (describing a horse): domesticated, tame, tamed
• (continuous): broken, interrupted

Translations

Etymology 2

From unbreak.

Verb

unbroken

1. past participle of unbreak