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"Abrupt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Abrupt \Ab*rupt"\, n. [L. abruptum.]
An abrupt place. [Poetic]
"Over the vast abrupt." --Milton.
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"Abrupt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Abrupt \Ab*rupt"\, v. t.
To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them."
--Sir T. Browne.
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"Abrupt" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Abrupt \Ab*rupt"\, a. [L. abruptus, p. p. of abrumpere to break
off; ab + rumpere to break. See {Rupture}.]
1. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices,
banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling
through ricks abrupt," --Thomson.
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2. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden;
hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt
departure." --Shak.
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3. Having sudden transitions from one subject to another;
unconnected.
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The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. --B.
Jonson.
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4. (Bot.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. --Gray.
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Syn: Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious;
rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken.
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"abrupt" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
abrupt
adj 1: marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions;
"abrupt prose" [syn: {disconnected}]
2: exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop";
"an abrupt change in the weather"
3: extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids
of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese
paintings"; "a sharp drop" [syn: {precipitous}, {sharp}]
4: surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an
abrupt reply"
"abrupt" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "abrupt":
aggressive, arduous, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged,
blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bold, brash,
breakneck, breathless, brief, brisk, brusque, casual, cavalier,
churlish, crisp, crusty, curt, discourteous, dull, dull-edged,
dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, electrifying, faired,
gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, impolite,
impulsive, informal, nerve-shattering, obtuse, panting,
perpendicular, plumb, plunging, pointless, precipitant,
precipitate, precipitous, quick, rapid, rash, ready, rough,
rounded, rude, rushing, severe, sharp, sheer, shocking, short,
sideling, smoothed, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippy, speedy,
startling, steep, stickle, sudden, surly, surprising, swift,
truculent, unannounced, unanticipated, unceremonious, uncivil,
unedged, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unplanned,
unpointed, unpredicted, unsharp, unsharpened, vertical
"ABRUPT" devils "THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)"
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-
shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most
affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another
author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."
"abrupt" eng-ara "English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary"
Abrupt
مفاجئ
"abrupt" eng-cro "English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary"
abrupt
isprekidan, iznenadan, nagao, naglog, nenadan, odsječan, strm, vrletan,
žestok
"abrupt" eng-cze "English-Czech fdicts/FreeDict Dictionary"
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