abrupt 的定义
- sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
- curt or brusque in speech, manner, etc.: an abrupt reply.
- terminating or changing suddenly: an abrupt turn in a road.
- having many sudden changes from one subject to another; lacking in continuity or smoothness: an abrupt writing style.
- steep; precipitous: an abrupt descent.
- Botany. truncate.
abrupt 近义词
happening suddenly and unexpectedly
rude or brief in manner
更多abrupt例句
- Chipmakers curbed production then ramped back up, though they still can't meet the industry's abrupt demand rebound.
- Our best bet right now, based on the abrupt shift in model projections toward some meaningful precipitation, is that some wet snow will occur.
- Jumping into a message without at least a “Hi” is abrupt and rude in email, but less so in a text.
- The discovery, described January 16 in Cretaceous Research, suggests that mosasaurs were evolving experimental physical traits and lifestyles right up until their abrupt extinction 66 million years ago.
- The retelling also seems to confirm long-standing rumors that Sean “Diddy” Combs — a frequent target of Williams — had a hand in Williams’s abrupt 1998 departure from the prominent hip-hop station.
- In May 2009, however, the president had an abrupt change of heart.
- Fans felt cheated by the abrupt end of a marriage seasons in the making (to Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery).
- Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.
- King declined to elaborate on what that “immediate and abrupt action” would be, saying only that he had “a few ideas.”
- The abrupt increase that night in U.S. sorties also stopped the town falling.
- There was no vivacity in his putty-coloured features, but there were promptitude and decision in every abrupt gesture.
- The intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.
- She had begun to speak with an abrupt and almost fierce nervous irritation, but she recovered herself immediately.
- Some of his violins possess a distinguishing mark in a rather abrupt rise in the centre.
- The speech came to an abrupt end when, losing her balance, she fell to the ground, and lay there in drunken contentment.