Definition of Abruptest

1. Adjective. (superlative of abrupt) ¹

2. Adjective. Most abrupt ¹

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Definition of Abruptest

1. abrupt [adj] - See also: abrupt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abruptest

abrooke
abrooked
abrookes
abrooking
abrooks
abrosia
abrosias
abrotanum
abrotanums
abrotine
abrotines
abrupt
abrupt cessation
abrupted
abrupter
abruptest (current term)
abrupting
abruptio placentae
abruptio placentarum
abruption
abruptiones placentarum
abruptions
abruptly
abruptly-pinnate
abruptly-pinnate leaf
abruptness
abruptnesses
abrupts
abs
abs-

Literary usage of Abruptest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"When are you at home? " "When you like." "Breakfast-time?" said Jenny, in her abruptest and shortest manner. " No better time in the day," said ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Daring and rapacious, with marvellous power of steerage, it follows the abruptest turns of its victims with the greatest ease, gliding after them in a low, ..."

3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"He hears the funeral dirge in which his actions are celebrated in most grandiloquent sing-song, descending at last to the abruptest bathos. ..."

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