abrupt
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- adjective
- /əˈbrʌpt/
:
brusco
- Hi guys, sorry for the abrupt transition.
- an abrupt change
- an abrupt shift
- an abrupt transition
It feels a little too abrupt, too fast.
- It feels a little too abrupt, too fast.
- So it was pretty abrupt to say the least.
- There is no swish, no abrupt changes in volume disrupt the continuity.
- So that was, it was just really, really abrupt, I'd say.
- Gold would have to change it's it's behavior and do an abrupt U-turn.
- Obviously that came to a pretty abrupt end.
- And unfortunately for me, things come to an abrupt end.
- It was such an abrupt change for people that they didn't quite understand why.
- I mean, it might seem that way given the abrupt jump between consciousness and self consciousness.
- So now we have to think about the human consequences of this very sudden, this very abrupt halt in economic activity.
- It's either foot on the accelerator smashed to the floorboard, or the foot on the brakes with an abrupt halt, slammed on the brakes, slammed.
- But this cold and this abrupt is a little bit unexpected.
- It was no abrupt stop or back and it was all fluid.
Examples
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Well, maybe telling her tonight is a little abrupt.
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Here we're going up in frequency and notice a rather abrupt change in characteristics.
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So it was pretty abrupt to say the least.
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Did your great winning streak come to an abrupt end?
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Then he was gone, his absence hardly noted in the abrupt change in our circumstances.
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So now we have to think about the human consequences of this very sudden, this very abrupt halt in economic activity.
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And it was mostly about weather extremes and said that climate change has been much more abrupt than climate scientists expected.
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Your little vacation's about to come to a rather abrupt and severe end.
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It was such an abrupt change for people that they didn't quite understand why.
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The program came to an abrupt end because of federal budget cuts last September.
Synonyms
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Happening quickly and without warning
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Happening suddenly without planning, often as a quick decision
Suddenly and quickly in a new direction
Antonyms
How Sudden
Surface Forms
Morphology
abrupt = ab + rupt
Although historically analyzable as ab- + rupt, 'rupt' is not a standalone English word and the meaning is not transparently recoverable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Abrupt comes from two Latin parts, ab- ('away') and rupt ('break'), so it originally meant 'broken away'. Think of something that is suddenly 'broken off' — that's why abrupt means a quick or unexpected change.