Word Meanings - ABRUPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray. Syn. -- Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken. (more info) 1. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as,

Additional info about word: ABRUPT

Suddenly terminating, as if cut off. Gray. Syn. -- Sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious; rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABRUPT)

• Bluff
• Bare
• open
• bold
• abrupt
• frank
• plain-spoken
• blunt
• surly
• rude
• blustering
• swaggering
• brusque
• hectoring
• coarse
• discourteous
• rough
• bullying
• Precipitous
• Steep
• headlong
• sheer
• perpendicular
• beetling
• rash
• dangerous
• Abrupt
• precipitous
• elevated
• inaccessible
• hilly
• craggy
• Sudden
• Unanticipated
• hasty
• quick
• unexpected

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABRUPT)

• Air
• dry
• ventilate
• fan
• sun
• aridity
• exsiccate

Related words: (words related to ABRUPT)

• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• ARIDITY
  1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• VENTILATE
  brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• COARSE
  was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BLUFFNESS
  The quality or state of being bluff.
• UNEXPECTED
  Not expected; coming without warning; sudden. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ex*pect"ed*ness, n.
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• HIGH-WROUGHT
  1. Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. Pope. 2. Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood." Shak.
• THOROUGHWORT
  See BONESET