rubble · crumbs · smithereens · jagged · glass · wreckage · scattered · crushed · cracked · fractured · ruins · chips · remnants · mosaic · pottery · fallen · swept · sharp
broken pieceswhole
Full and undivided
entirety · totality · complete set · full assembly · finished product
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Related — shattered (Broken into fragments); fragments (Incomplete broken pieces); shards (Broken fragments of brittle material); splinters · debris · rubble · crumbs · smithereens · jagged · glass · wreckage · scattered · crushed
PHYSICAL INTEGRITYbroken pieces ≠ monolith Huge solitary standing stone
WHOLENESS/COMPLETENESSbroken pieces ≠ whole Full and undivided; entirety · totality · complete set · full assembly · finished product
CONDITION/QUALITYbroken pieces ≠ mint condition Perfect, unused state; working order
scraps: bits, scraps, remnants, shards, trimmings; craft flaws: cracks, tears, holes, stains, gaps
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/broken_pieces