Abrupt

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Unexpectedly sudden. adjective

Surprisingly curt; brusque. adjective

Touching on one subject after another with sudden transitions. adjective

Steeply inclined. synonym: steep. adjective

Terminating suddenly rather than gradually; truncate. adjective

To break off; interrupt; disturb.

Broken or appearing as if broken away or off; marked by or showing a sudden breach or change of continuity; wanting continuation or completion: as, the path or the discourse came to an abrupt termination; an abrupt turn in a road. Hence Steep; precipitous: as, an abrupt cliff; an abrupt descent.

Figuratively, sudden; without notice to prepare the mind for the event; unceremonious: as, an abrupt entrance or address.

Lacking in continuity; having sudden transitions from one subject to another: as, an abrupt style.

In botany, terminating suddenly: as, an abrupt point: sometimes used in the sense of truncate: as, an abrupt leaf.

An abrupt place; a precipice or chasm. noun

To tear off or asunder. transitive verb

An abrupt place. noun

Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep. adjective

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

Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. adjective

Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. adjective

Extremely steep adjective

Surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner adjective

Marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions adjective

Something which is abrupt; an abyss.

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's author's ideas that they were 'concatenated without abruption' Urban Dictionary

A poem, normally a spoof of a well known rhyme, with an abrupt, surprising, and often explicit ending. Urban Dictionary

Abrupt Edge is a band commonly known for overplayed solo's, terrible vocals, songs with no point, and most if not all band members are douche bags. You will commonly see the basist of the group dating girls still in High School, buying them expensive rings, gettings engaged and then calling the whole thing off. He tends to screw eveyone he knows but swears he is giving them the best end of the deal. He is a self proclaimed saint and master of all things known to man. Everyone else in this band goes on with their failing musical career and will more that likely end up working in a garage, bagging groceries, dropping out of college, if they even go, or driving a school bus full of high school kids to find their future wife. Urban Dictionary

When someone is acting crazy and intensely. Urban Dictionary

The postulation that optimization does not lead to a structure-of-truth or epistemology. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to abrupt:
abrupt.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word abrupt:
discontinuation, halt, cessation, termination, withdrawal, onset, gradual, cancellation, departure, dismissal, cliffs, sudden, resignation, ending, transition, disappearance, warming, change, changes, climate, end, extinction, shift, slope, unexpected, symptoms, mood, decrease, collapse, slopes, tone, antarctic, drop, shock, rapid, reduction, manner, decline, conclusion, closure, turn, rise, boundary, dramatic, narrative.

Words that rhyme with abrupt:
corrupt, disrupt, interrupt, erupt, upped, supped, cupped, snipped, blipped, tupped, dript, pupped, vbscript, jscript, crypt-.

Adjectives that are often used to describe abrupt:
topt, topped, vast.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective abrupt:
change, changes, end, halt, onset, transition, departure, termination, withdrawal, manner, increase, stop, cessation, transitions, rise, shift, turn, ending, movement, discontinuation, decrease, drop, conclusion, break, shifts, fall, decline, appearance, close, movements, loss, junction, closure, reversal, dismissal, question, descent, silence, face, gesture, boundary, hills, reduction, turns, decision, disappearance, increases, tone, fashion, entrance, return, cliffs, slope, variations, beginning, style, discontinuity, bend, interruption, transformation, slopes, switch, motion, contrast, angle, introduction, removal, precipices, retouch, edge, collapse, hill, breaks, laugh, discontinuities, separation, edges, sentences, sound, jump, pause, contraction, interfaces, cutoff, junctions, fluctuations, expansion, precipice, announcement, exit, opening, off, failure, interface.

Words that sound like abrupt:
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