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Definition: Abruptly |
AbruptlyAdverb1. Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abruptly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: AbruptlySynonyms: dead (adv), short (adv), suddenly (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpectation | Adverb: abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly; plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares; without notice, without warning, without a "by your leave"; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded moment; suddenly; (instantaneously). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Lyrics | And it's too hard for me to leave abruptly ("Honey"; performing artist: Mariah Carey) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Napoleon, turning abruptly, sent off a courier at full speed to Paris to announce that the battle was won. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He turned abruptly and walked downstream along the shore. |
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Health | Most TD cases begin abruptly. (references) | |
Illness usually begins abruptly with fever and other symptoms. (references) | ||
Do not increase or decrease doses or abruptly stop taking a prescription without consulting a health care provider first. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cuba | The hearse abruptly departed, forcing mourners to find alternate ways of transportation to the cemetery. (references) |
Burma | For example, there were instances cited during the year in which local authorities or conditions changed and the informal approval for construction was rescinded abruptly. (references) | |
Peru | There were indications that Cable Magico may have had ulterior political and financial motives for abruptly canceling its contract with CCN. On April 12, Telefonica published an advertisement saying that its cable system, Cable Magico, was canceling the frequency used by cable channel CCN because owner Manuel Ulloa didn't inform it of his transfer of shares to Vicente Silva, who was representing the Minister of Defense. (references) | |
Economic History | Republic of Congo | However, President Massamba-Debat's term ended abruptly in August 1968, when Capt. (references) |
Fiji | The larger islands contain mountains as high as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) rising abruptly from the shore. (references) | |
Eritrea | The moves to demobilize were abruptly reversed after the outbreak of war with Ethiopia over a contested border. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | A strong, export-led recovery in 2000 and early 2001 stalled abruptly at mid-year, following a slump in consumer demand in the United States and Europe. (references) |
Western Sahara | A public trial was convened abruptly in May 2000, in Agadir's court of first instance, and the three Sahrawis were convicted of threatening the internal security of the State and sentenced to 3 to 4 years in prison. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Nicaragua | However, the leader of the CST union resigned from his position abruptly and left the factory. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow. |
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| "Abruptly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 99.07% of the time. "Abruptly" is used about 1,074 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 99.07% | 1,064 | 7,052 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.19% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,074 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abruptly": Abruptly pinnate ♦ to become abruptly strained. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "abruptly": abruptly-pinnate, abruptly-pinnate leaf. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abruptly | 2 |
abruptly it prozac safe stop taking | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abruptly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | skielik (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Albanian | vrazhdë (coarsely, harshly, roughly), shkurt (February, in a nutshell, in a word, in brief, in short, in sum, short), menjëherë (at once, away, directly, forthright, forthwith, immediately, impulsively, incontinently, instantly, just now, momentarily, momently, now, offhand, offhandedly, on the spot, on the spur of the moment, out of hand, pronto, right away, straight away, therewith), befas (all at once, all of a sudden, at once, cold, plump, sharply, short, slap, suddenly). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стръмно (sheer), рязко (crustily, point blank, sharp, sharply, short, shortly), разпокъсано (dispersedly, patchily), внезапно (all of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, out of the blue, plop, plump, pop, short, shortly, suddenly, unawares), отсечено (curt, jerkily, sharply). (various references) | |
Chinese | 猛然 (suddenly), 突然 (Abrupt, Abruptness, shortly, sudden, suddenly), 勃 (flourishing, prosperous, suddenly), ' (die, hurriedly, soldier). (various references) | |
Czech | stroze (baldly, gruffly), nesouvisle (incoherently), náhle (all at once, all of a sudden, bump, on a sudden, short, slap, suddenly, unawares). (various references) | |
Danish | pludseligt (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Dutch | kortaf (abrupt), botweg, abrupt (abrupt). (various references) | |
Esperanto | abrupte. (various references) | |
Faeroese | knappliga (all of a sudden, suddenly), brádliga (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Finnish | yhtäkkiä (all at once, all of a sudden, suddenly), äkkiä (suddenly). (various references) | |
French | brusquement, abruptement. (various references) | |
German | jäh (abrupt, all of a sudden, headlong, precipitous, precipitously, sharp, sheer, steeply, sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Greek | απότομα (jerkily, steeply, surlily). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתאום (all at once, all of a sudden, sharp, short, sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hirtelen (abrupt, all at once, all of a sudden, bang, bulge, hasty, headlong, heady, on a sudden, out of the blue, plump, pop, precocious, presently, raid, rapid, rashly, sharp, short, skedaddle, slap dash, slap-dash, smack, snap, snoring, spasmodic, speedily, sudden, suddenly, to pop out, to pull up, to yaw). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skyndilega. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan tiba-tiba, dengan kasar. (various references) | |
Italian | improvvisamente (all of a sudden, overnight, plump, slap, suddenly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 突然 (all at once, suddenly, unexpectedly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がぜ" (all of a sudden, meaningless existence, suddenly), ひょうぜ" (aimlessly, casually, unexpectedly), ふいに (suddenly, unexpectedly), ばったり (flop, plump, suddenly, unexpectedly, with a bang, with a clash), いきなり (all of a sudden, suddenly, without warning), とつぜ" (all at once, suddenly, unexpectedly). (various references) | |
Korean | 갑작스럽게. (various references) | |
Manx | dy geyre, dy doaltattym (suddenly), dy cuttagh, doaltattymagh (suddenly). (various references) | |
Papiamen | inesperadamente (unexpectedly), direpientemente (all of a sudden, suddenly), direpiente (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abruptlyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bruscamente (bluffly, harshly, offhandedly, roughly, sharply, short, shortly, slap bang, suddenly), abruptamente (blunt, short, shortly). (various references) | |
Romanian | aspru (abrupt, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, exacting, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry), abrupt (abrupt, arduous, bluffy, bold, craggy, desultory, disjointed, harsh, perpendicular, precipitate, precipitous, rapid, sharp, steep), sacadat (abrupt, jerky), pieptiş (abrupt, boldly, hand to hand), pe neaşteptate (all at once, all of a sudden, impromptu, off hand, on a sudden, short, shortly, slap, snap, suddenly, unawares, unexpectedly, upon a sudden), odatã (at once, immediately, once, someday, sometime, together), fãrã ocolişuri (bluff, bluntly), brusc (abrupt, all at once, bang, bounce, brusque, plop, plump, rash, roughly, rude, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, snap, sudden, suddenly, unawares, unexpected, unexpectedly). (various references) | |
Russian | круто (steeply, sternly, suddenly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iznenada (all of a sudden, blue: out of the blue, bump, short, suddenly, surprise: by surprise, unawares). (various references) | |
Spanish | abruptamente. (various references) | |
Swahili | ghafula (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvärt (at once, directly, squarely), burdus (abrupt, bluff, blunt, brusque, slapdash). (various references) | |
Turkish | ansizin (all of a sudden, suddenly), ansızın (all of a sudden, at unawares, on a sudden, out of the blue, pop, slap, suddenly), aniden (all at once, all of a sudden, at a stroke, at once, Bob, in a flash, on a sudden, out of clear sky, sharp, short, slap, slap bang, suddenly), aníden (all of a sudden, at once, immediately, just, promptly, right away, right now, suddenly), birdenbire (all at once, all of a sudden, at once, in a flash, on a sudden, out of clear sky, suddenly), beklenmedik bir şekilde, bírdenbíre (all of a sudden, suddenly), bírden (all of a sudden, suddenly). (various references) | |
Ukranian | стрімко (post), різко (acutely, hardly, harshly, roundly, sharply, short, shrewdly), раптово (rudely), круто (boldly, sharp), грубо (grossly, rough, roughly, rudely, shrewdly), несподівано (bang, casually, overnight, plump, surprisingly, unawares, unexpectedly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abrupte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Abruptly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abrptly, abrubtly, abruptley, abrutly, abuptly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abruptly" (pronounced ubru"ptlē) |
| 4 | -p t l ē | aptly, ineptly, promptly, raptly. |
| 3 | -t l ē | absolutely, abundantly, accidently, accurately, acutely, adamantly, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, apparently, appropriately, approximately, ardently, arrogantly, astutely, blatantly, bluntly, brightly, brilliantly, coherently, commensurately, compassionately, competently, complacently, completely, concomitantly, concretely, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, currently, curtly, decently, defiantly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, differently, difficultly, diligently, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, efficiently, elaborately, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, exactly, excellently, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, extravagantly, exultantly, faintly, fervently, firstly, flagrantly, flamboyantly, flatly, fluently, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, fraudulently, frequently, gently, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, hesitantly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imminently, impatiently, imperfectly, implicitly, importantly, imprudently, inaccurately, inadequately, inadvertently, inappropriately, incessantly, incoherently, incompetently, incorrectly, indefinitely, independently, indignantly, indirectly, indiscriminately, inefficiently, infinitely, infrequently, inherently, innately, innocently, inordinately, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intently, intermittently, intimately, intricately, jointly, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, legitimately, leniently, lightly, magnificently, manifestly, militantly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, negligently, nightly, nonchalantly, obediently, overtly, partly, passionately, patently, patiently, perfectly, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, politely, portly, predominantly, presently, priestly, privately, prominently, proportionately, prudently, pungently, quaintly, quietly, recently, reluctantly, remotely, resolutely, reverently, rightly, robustly, saintly, secretly, separately, shortly, significantly, silently, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, stridently, stringently, subsequently, succinctly, sufficiently, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, transparently, triumphantly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unpleasantly, unsightly, urgently, valiantly, vastly, vehemently, violently, virulently, Whitely. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: butyral. | |
-2 letters: abrupt, brutal, burlap, paltry, partly, raptly. | |
-3 letters: aptly, blurt, burly, butyl, layup, lyart, party, patly, platy, pruta, truly, tubal, typal, ultra, yurta. | |
-4 letters: ably, abut, arty, aryl, blat, blur, brat, bray, brut, bura, burl, burp, bury, byrl, paly, part, paty, plat, play, prat, prau, pray, pula, purl, rapt, ruby, ruly, tabu, tarp, trap, tray, tuba, upby, yaup, yurt. | |
-5 letters: aby, alb, alp, alt, apt, arb, art, bal, bap, bar, bat, bay, bra, bur, but, buy, lab, lap, lar, lat, lay, pal, par, pat, pay, ply, pry, pub, pul, pur, put, pya, rap, rat, ray, rub, rut, rya, tab, tap, tar, tau, try, tub, tup, urb, uta, yap, yar, yup. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-p-r-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: reputably. | |
+4 letters: disreputably, hypermutable, reputability, unprofitably. | |
+5 letters: imperturbably, insupportably, perambulatory, perdurability, protuberantly, unpredictably, upgradability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 72 75 70 74 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .-. ..- .--. - .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01110010 01110101 01110000 01110100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b r u p t l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0072 0075 0070 0074 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568848782867891 |
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