Abrupt: Definition and part of speech

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Abrupt

  1. v. t. To tear off or asunder.
  2. a. Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
  3. a. Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
  4. a. Having sudden transitions from one subject to another; unconnected.
  5. a. Suddenly terminating, as if cut off.
  6. n. An abrupt place.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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