abrupt🔊

(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

Curt in manner. +

Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.

(obsolete) Broken off.

Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.

(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.

(archaic) To tear off or asunder.

To interrupt suddenly.

(poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.