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Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 10 votes

  1. abruptly, suddenly, short, deadadverb

    quickly and without warning

    "he stopped suddenly"

    Synonyms:
    shortly, curtly, on the spur of the moment, perfectly, suddenly, short, absolutely, of a sudden, dead, utterly, unawares, all of a sudden

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "abruptly":

    suddenly, sharply, precipitously, unexpectedly, steeply, brutally

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#746short
#1700dead
#3582absolutely
#5557suddenly
#5872perfectly
#7260shortly
#14745utterly
#15468sharply
#21349unexpectedly
#25555abruptly
#30677brutally
#56062steeply
#100004unawares
#106780precipitously
#123874curtly

How to use abruptly in a sentence?

  1. Masamichi Adachi:

    Ueda won’t abruptly move and probably wait until his second meeting in June, in changing forward guidance and YCC, the BOJ will likely abandon its 10-year bond yield target, while maintaining negative interest rates, to arrest distortions in the yield curve.

  2. Kate Kilpatrick:

    We were sleeping and it woke us up abruptly, it was so terrifying because this is my first earthquake. I thought it was a nightmare because I was so confused. The whole world was aggressively shaking.

  3. Joe Schrank:

    We think of addiction as this light switch you can turn on and off, what we're learning is that for some people, it's similar to scuba diving: You can only come up 20 feet so often or you get very, very sick. When people stop immediately and that abruptly, it really makes them vulnerable.

  4. Joe Chermak:

    They all seemed well-behaved. And also, like, they were all in uniforms, so at first I thought it was a group of kids coming from another school, we did n’t really think much of it, but all I know is that they kind of left abruptly in the middle of the show.

  5. Richard Blanco:

    There was no room for mediation. (My husband) was asking them to please stay calm and was asking what was going on. Abruptly, pushing and shoving, and without saying a word a gigantic, enormous contingent of agents, who were all over the place on the sixth-floor office where he works part of the day, took him away. they pushed me as well and they pointed their guns at me.


Translations for abruptly

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  • ра́птамBelarusian
  • внезапно, рязко, безцеремонноBulgarian
  • abruptament, precipitadamentCatalan, Valencian
  • unerwartet, abgerissen, plötzlich, abschüssig, abruptGerman
  • αποτόμως, εσπευσμένως, αιφνιδίωςGreek
  • abruptamente, precipitadamenteSpanish
  • yht'äkkiä, äkkijyrkkä, yhtäkkiä, äkillinen, äkillisestiFinnish
  • tout d'un coup, abruptement, précipitammentFrench
  • एकाएकHindi
  • tiba-tibaIndonesian
  • improvvisamenteItalian
  • abrupt, bruusk, plotseling, plotsDutch
  • naglePolish
  • abruptamentePortuguese
  • abrupt, deodatăRomanian
  • резко, внезапно, отрывисто, неожиданно, бесцеремонноRussian
  • abruptSwedish
  • อย่างฉับพลันThai
  • anidenTurkish

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