Synonyms of the word abrupt


ABRUPTDISCONNECTED - DISCOURTEOUS - PRECIPITOUS - SHARP - STACCATO - STEEP - SUDDEN

abrupt

  • adj. (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
  • adj. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
  • adj. Curt in manner; brusque; rude; uncivil; impolite.
  • adj. Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
  • adj. (obsolete) Broken off.
  • adj. Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
  • adj. (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
  • v. To interrupt suddenly.
  • n. (poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.

disconnected

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of disconnect.
  • adj. That is no longer connected.
  • adj. Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both…

discourteous

  • adj. impolite; lacking consideration for others.

precipitous

  • adj. Steep, like a precipice.
  • adj. Headlong.
  • adj. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden.

sharp

  • adj. Able to cut easily.
  • adj. (colloquial) Intelligent.
  • adj. Terminating in a point or edge; not obtuse or rounded.
  • adj. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
  • adj. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
  • adj. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
  • adj. Sudden and intense.
  • adj. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
  • adj. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
  • adj. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
  • adj. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
  • adj. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
  • adj. Observant; alert; acute.
  • adj. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
  • adj. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
  • adj. (chess) Tactical; risky.
  • adj. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
  • adj. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
  • adj. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
  • adj. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
  • adj. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
  • adv. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
  • adv. (not comparable) Exactly.
  • adv. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.
  • n. (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff…
  • n. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed…
  • n. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
  • n. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
  • n. A sharp tool or weapon.
  • n. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
  • n. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
  • n. A dishonest person; a cheater.
  • n. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
  • n. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
  • n. (in the plural) middlings.
  • n. (slang, dated) An expert.
  • n. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
  • v. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
  • v. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

staccato

  • n. (music) An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly…
  • n. (music) A passage having this mark.
  • adv. (music) played in this style.
  • adj. (music) Describing a passage having this mark.
  • adj. Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.

steep

  • adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
  • adj. (informal) expensive.
  • adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
  • adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
  • v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
  • n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
  • n. A rennet bag.

sudden

  • adj. Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
  • adj. (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • adj. (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • adv. (poetic) Suddenly.
  • n. (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

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