Found 3 items, similar to Abrupt.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: abrupt
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: abrupt
abrupt
adj 1: marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions;
“abrupt prose” [syn:
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:
precipitous,
sharp]
4: surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner;
“an
abrupt reply”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Abrupt
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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Abrupt
\Ab*rupt"\, n. [L. abruptum.]
An abrupt place. [Poetic]
“Over the vast abrupt.” --Milton.
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Abrupt
\Ab*rupt"\, v. t.
To tear off or asunder. [Obs.]
“Till death abrupts them.”
--Sir T. Browne.
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