Thesaurus: abrupt

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1. a. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
2. a. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
3. a. Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
4. a. Suddenly terminating, as if cut off.
5. n. An abrupt place.
6. v. t. To tear off or asunder.
7. adj. marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
8. adj. exceedingly sudden and unexpected
9. adj. dangerously steep
10. adj. surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
11. 1. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson. 2. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak. 3. Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson. 4. (Bot.) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray. Syn. -- Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken. An abrupt place. [Poetic] "Over the vast abrupt." Milton. To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.
12. Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray.