cracked

[ krakt ]

adjective

1. broken:

   a container full of cracked ice.

2. broken without separation of parts; fissured.
3. damaged; injured.
4. Informal. eccentric; mad; daffy:

   a charming person, but a bit cracked.

5. broken in tone, as the voice.

cracked

/ krækt /

adjective

1. damaged by cracking
2. informal.
   crazy

Other Words From

• un·cracked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cracked¹

First recorded in 1400–50, cracked is from the late Middle English word crachyd. See crack, -ed ²

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. cracked up to be, Informal. reported or reputed to be (usually used in the negative):

   I hear the play is not what it's cracked up to be.

Example Sentences

This area of your face dries out easily and can become raw and cracked.

From Popular-Science

It made a nuclear mess in the Antarctic, with 438 malfunctions in 10 years including a cracked and leaking containment vessel.

From Popular-Science

Maybe that’s why this call was more difficult and I ended up saying goodbye to my father with a cracked voice and wet eyes.

From Washington Blade

Just two days before the collapse, a pool contractor was so alarmed that he documented cracked concrete and corroded, exposed rebar in the garage, according to the Miami Herald.

From Time

Before you crawl into your sleeping bag, slather cracked fingers and crusty knees with this extra-thick balm.

From Outside Online

Trying The Macallan for the first time cracked it wide open for me in terms of how special whisky could be.

From The Daily Beast

Turing conceived and built a computer, the forerunner of all digital computations, that cracked the code.

From The Daily Beast

Working with him, too, he cracked up a couple of times with what I was doing in the scene-work.

From The Daily Beast

And then it really cracked us up that it was the mental institution that made them the monsters we know and love.

From The Daily Beast

Inserting my key into the lock, I had just cracked the door open when a face appeared in the window.

From The Daily Beast

"God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.

From Project Gutenberg

In his cracked old voice, he still paid his Grandisonian compliments to the two ladies.

From Project Gutenberg

Just as I got there, he made it to his feet somehow and cracked their heads together exactly hard enough to bring peace.

From Project Gutenberg

Donny recognized the high, cracked, pathetic tones which had addressed him at the station.

From Project Gutenberg

Then a branch cracked sharply outside, and Watch barked out loud.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• broken
• damaged
• fractured