[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abrupt \abrupt"\, n. l. abruptum.
   an abrupt place. poetic

         "over the vast abrupt."                  --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abrupt \abrupt"\, v. t.
   to tear off or asunder. obs. "till death abrupts them."
   --sir t. browne.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

abrupt \abrupt"\, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden;
      hasty; unceremonious. "the cause of your abrupt
      departure." --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. having sudden transitions from one subject to another;
      unconnected.
      1913 webster

            the abrupt style, which hath many breaches. --b.
                                                  jonson.
      1913 webster

   4. bot. suddenly terminating, as if cut off. --gray.
      1913 webster

   syn: sudden; unexpected; hasty; rough; curt; unceremonious;
        rugged; blunt; disconnected; broken.
        1913 webster
see also:
rupture 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"
see also:
disconnected precipitous sharp 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

94 moby thesaurus words for "abrupt":
   aggressive, arduous, bearish, beastly, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged,
   blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bold, brash,
   breakneck, breathless, brief, brisk, brusque, casual, cavalier,
   churlish, crisp, crusty, curt, discourteous, dull, dull-edged,
   dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, electrifying, faired,
   gruff, harsh, hasty, headlong, hurried, impetuous, impolite,
   impulsive, informal, nerve-shattering, obtuse, panting,
   perpendicular, plumb, plunging, pointless, precipitant,
   precipitate, precipitous, quick, rapid, rash, ready, rough,
   rounded, rude, rushing, severe, sharp, sheer, shocking, short,
   sideling, smoothed, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippy, speedy,
   startling, steep, stickle, sudden, surly, surprising, swift,
   truculent, unannounced, unanticipated, unceremonious, uncivil,
   unedged, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unplanned,
   unpointed, unpredicted, unsharp, unsharpened, vertical

[6] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

abrupt, adj.  sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-
shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most
affected by it.  dr. samuel johnson beautifully said of another
author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."

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