abrupt

UK /əˈbɹʌpt/ US /əˈbɹʌpt/
adj 5verb 2noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Broken away (from restraint).

2

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.

The cause of your abrupt departure.

3

Curt in manner.

With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spoken, delicately made, precise, and elegant; the other, a burly square-built man, negligently dressed, rough and abrupt in manner, stern, and, in his present mood, forbidding both in look and speech.

4

Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.

The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.

5

Broken off.

verb

1

To tear off or asunder.

Till death abrupts them.

2

To interrupt suddenly.

noun

1

Something which is abrupt; an abyss.

Over the vast abrupt.

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