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abrupt

adjective

1 the car came to an abrupt halt | he was grumbling at the abrupt change of weather:

sudden, immediate, instantaneous, hurried, hasty, quick, swift, rapid, speedy, precipitate;

unexpected, surprising, startling, unanticipated, unforeseen, without warning;

violent, headlong, breakneck, meteoric.

▷antonyms gradual, unhurried.

2 an abrupt manner:

curt, brusque, blunt, short, sharp, terse, brisk, crisp, gruff, snappish, snappy, unceremonious, offhand, cavalier, rough, harsh;

rude, discourteous, uncivil, surly, churlish;

bluff, no-nonsense, to the point, laconic;

informal off.

▷antonyms friendly, polite, expansive.

3 he tends to write in abrupt, epigrammatic paragraphs:

jerky, uneven, irregular, disconnected, discontinuous, broken, rough, inelegant.

▷antonyms smooth, flowing.

4 an abrupt slope:

steep, sheer, precipitous, bluff, sharp, sudden, acute;

perpendicular, vertical, dizzy, vertiginous;

rare declivitous.

▷antonyms gradual, gentle.

choose the right word	abrupt, brusque, curt, terse
See brusque.