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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
abrupt
adj 1: marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp
transitions; "abrupt prose" [syn: abrupt,
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: abrupt, precipitous,
sharp]
4: surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an
abrupt reply"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Abrupt \Ab*rupt"\, n. [L. abruptum.]
An abrupt place. [Poetic]
"Over the vast abrupt." --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Abrupt \Ab*rupt"\, v. t.
To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them."
--Sir T. Browne.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
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."
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Thesaurus Results for Abrupt:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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