Definitions for abrupt

abrupt ab·rupt

Spelling: [uh-bruhpt]
IPA: /əˈbrʌpt/

Abrupt is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in abrupt (abprtu).

Definitions for abrupt

adjective

  1. sudden or unexpected:
  2. curt or brusque in speech, manner, etc.:
  3. terminating or changing suddenly:
  4. having many sudden changes from one subject to another; lacking in continuity or smoothness:
  5. steep; precipitous:
  6. Botany. truncate (def 4).

Origin of abrupt

1575-85; Latin abruptus broken off (past participle of abrumpere), equivalent to ab- ab- + -rup- break + -tus past participle suffix

Examples for abrupt

He was roused from this self-commune by an abrupt exclamation from his companion.

I must be abrupt; for I am so circumstanced, that I have not a moment's time to spare.

The abrupt increase that night in U.S. sorties also stopped the town falling.

Fans felt cheated by the abrupt end of a marriage seasons in the making (to Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery).

King declined to elaborate on what that “immediate and abrupt action” would be, saying only that he had “a few ideas.”

In May 2009, however, the president had an abrupt change of heart.

Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.

Her abrupt entry into the room, while he was in bed, startled him.

The Colonel, who could not hear the remark, wondered at the abrupt pause in the game.

The interrogation came with an abrupt force that cried of new suspicions.

Word Value for abrupt
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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