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adjective

Abrupt adj.

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt,"

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure."

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. "The abrupt style, which hath many breaches."

(Bot.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off.

Synonyms: Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken.

noun

Abrupt n. An abrupt place. (Poetic) ""Over the vast abrupt.""

verb

Abrupt v. t. To tear off or asunder. (Obs.) "Till death abrupts them."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abrupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost at once, before Alice or her father could come in. Alice was out walking, she said, and her father was in the study. They would be in soon. She thus made Rowcliffe realise that if she was going to be abrupt it was because she had to be; they had both of them ...

— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair

... abrupt retirement, but when a few moments later, Prudence looked shyly around, with cheeks a little rosier than usual, she saw Perez regarding her with a slight smile of amusement. A minute after she got up and went over to Mrs. Hamlin, and laid the ...

— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy

... muttered the constable, not at all satisfied with this abrupt close of the conversation, but too unready to prolong it. He went on his own way slowly, looking back often, till he saw the door open, after which he seemed better satisfied, and ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... perfectly convinced, and this is that he is at all times surrounded by a host of invisible agencies to which all occurrences are due, and with whom he must come to terms. Even death wears a different aspect to the primitive mind from that which it presents to the modern. To us death puts a sharp and abrupt termination to life. To the primitive mind death involves no such ending.[16] Death is no more of a break than is sleep; and at all times the conception of an annihilation of personality requires a marked degree of ...

— Religion & Sex - Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development • Chapman Cohen

... difficult to talk to this hard, grizzled man, knowing nothing about the war in Cuba nor evincing any interest in America. When Ned asked him about Ireland he answered in short sentences, which brought the conversation to abrupt closes. America having failed to draw him out, and Ireland, Ned began to talk of his landlady. But it was not until he related the conversation he had had with her that evening about Miss Cronin that the old farmer began to talk a little. Ned could see he was proud of ...

— The Untilled Field • George Moore

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