brokenly adverb2 •In a broken manner.It split and melted and splayed its contents brokenly. — 1982 •with gaps between words so that normal flow or fluency is affected, as due to emotion; disjointedly.It was a long time before he could steady his nerves to answer my questions, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly. — 1898 formsmore brokenly · most brokenly