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# abruptly

«abruptly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Suddenly and unexpectedly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Suddenly and unexpectedly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#m1)

2) In a short, rude or unfriendly way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Tells the reader that something changed or stopped with no warning: the music stopped abruptly, she left abruptly. Also how someone speaks: he answered abruptly. In science, a graph that changes abruptly has a sharp jump.

### examples

- The music stopped abruptly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x1)
- She stood up abruptly and left the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x2)
- The road ended abruptly at a fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x3)
- "No," he said abruptly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x4)
- The temperature dropped abruptly at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x5)
- The line on the graph rises abruptly after the third day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x6)
- ‘I want a boy to tend my cattle,’ he said abruptly, ‘as the one I had has run away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/#x7)

### note

Adverb from abrupt. Synonyms: suddenly, sharply. Rude sense: curtly, shortly. Spelling: abrupt + ly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abruptly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abruptly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.