Words and phrases that have a meaning related to abrupt: (188 results)
Often used in the same context:
unceremonious, sudden, unexpected, precipitous, dramatic, ignominious, drastic, jarring, tumultuous, inevitable, impending, untimely, startling, gradual, anticlimactic, unusual, surprising, hasty, uncharacteristic, inglorious, imminent, unceremonial, unpredicted, ungraceful, wrenching, unsettling, improbable, swift, brusque, inauspicious, inexplicable, disastrous, eventful, embarrassing, eventual, unscheduled, acrimonious, unpleasant, undramatic, inopportune, tempestuous, unplanned, unwelcome, unpredictable, awkward, rapid, bizarre, sharp, unprecedented, shocking, bewildering, eleventh hour, unpropitious, dizzying, disorienting, premature, erratic, prolonged, irreversible, cataclysmic, emphatic, unsatisfying, undignified, agonizing, belated, steep, chaotic, epochal, stunning, calamitous, unanticipated, turbulent, involuntary, overhasty, puzzling, atypical, stormy, unorthodox, disconcerting, painful, predictable, precipitious, momentary, downward, perplexing, unforeseen, unexplained, disquieting, humiliating, unavoidable, marked, ominous, earthshaking, protracted, rocky, bumpy, alarming, inexorable, prompt, arbitrary, momentous, abnormal, imperceptible, sharper, slight, steepest, noticeable, perceptible, pronounced, consequent, hurried
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., abruptness, acute schizophrenic episode, addict, alcoholism, alcohol addiction, anacoluthia, anacoluthon, avulsion, blusteringa, blusterous, blustery, bob, break, brusqueness, clack, clap, cold turkey, collapse, conge, critical, curtly, curtness, cut, drunkenness, ejaculation, exanthema subitum, exclaiming, exclamation, fling, french leave, gradual, gruffness, gusty, inebriation, interjection, interruption, jerk, jerking, jolt, jump, leap, level, lightning, lurch, manner of speaking, noncritical, pitch, pitching, promising, pseudorubella, quantum jump, reactive schizophrenia, roller coaster, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum, saltation, screak, screech, short, shortly, shortness, skreak, skreigh, snap, snarl, squawk, surge, toss, tug, turn, twitch, unwavering, upsurge
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Also try:disconnected, discourteous, staccato
— Nouns for abrupt: change, changes, end, halt, onset, transition, departure, termination, withdrawal, manner, increase, more...
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