broken speech
Interrupted verbal flow
Broken speech is halting, fragmented, or grammatically imperfect language.
It describes someone speaking with pauses, incomplete sentences, or errors—whether from emotion, injury, or unfamiliarity with the language: Through broken speech, she managed to explain what happened.
The phrase can refer to someone struggling to communicate in a second language or to speech interrupted by sobs, confusion, or physical difficulty.
- stutteringInvoluntary speech disfluency
- stammeringInvoluntary speech repetition
- haltingMarked by hesitation
- fragmentedBroken into pieces
- hesitantSlow to act
lost for words · at a loss · mumbling · faltering · choppy · garbled · incoherent · word salad · slurred · tongue-tied · nervous · pauses · stumbling · inarticulate · rambling · disjointed · trembling · voice cracking
- speech problemsstuttering, stammering, slurring, mumbling, slurred words
- unclear speechmuttering, murmur, slurring, babbling
- disfluencystutter, stammer, stammering, stuttering, disfluency
- gibberishgibberish, nonsense, babble, babbling, drivel
- speech disordersstuttering, stammering, stammer, dysarthria, lisp
- Mental Confusionconfusion, mental fog, brain fog, delirium, disorientation
broken speecheloquent speech
Articulate, powerful discourse
clear speech · eloquence · measured speech · persuasive rhetoric
broken, speech, breaks, breaking, broke, unbroken, breakable, unbreakable, breakage