abruptness

The word “abruptness” has 3 syllables: a-brupt-ness

It's pronounced as /əˈbrʌp(t)nəs/


What is synonym and antonym for abruptness?

In the thesaurus, “abruptness” has 85 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for abruptness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for abruptness

  • amazement
  • astonishment
  • astoundment
  • attack
  • awe
  • bank
  • bend
  • bevel
  • bewilderment
  • bias
  • bluntness
  • bombshell
  • brevity
  • briefness
  • brusqueness
  • cant
  • compactness
  • conciseness
  • concision
  • consternation
  • crispness
  • curiosity
  • curtness
  • curveball
  • declination
  • declivity
  • deflection
  • descent
  • deviation
  • diagonal
  • disappointment
  • disillusion
  • downgrade
  • epiphany
  • eureka
  • eye-opener
  • fortune
  • godsend
  • gradient
  • hill
  • inclination
  • incline
  • incredulity
  • jolt
  • kick
  • lean
  • leaning
  • marvel
  • miracle
  • miscalculation
  • obliqueness
  • obliquity
  • phenomenon
  • pitch
  • pithiness
  • portent
  • precipitance
  • precipitation
  • precipitousness
  • prodigy
  • ramp
  • rarity
  • revelation
  • rise
  • rising ground
  • sententiousness
  • shelf
  • shock
  • shortness
  • skew
  • start
  • steepness
  • stupefaction
  • succinctness
  • suddenness
  • swag
  • sway
  • terseness
  • thunderbolt
  • tip
  • unexpected
  • unforeseen
  • whammy
  • wonder
  • wonderment

Antonyms for abruptness

  • calmness
  • composure
  • coolness
  • diffuseness
  • evenness
  • expectation
  • happiness
  • indifference
  • level
  • long-windedness
  • periphrasis
  • pleonasm
  • prolixity
  • redundancy
  • repetitiousness
  • repetitiveness
  • tautology
  • upgrade
  • verbosity
  • wordiness

Example Sentences

  • The abruptness of his departure caught us all off guard.
  • She was taken aback by the abruptness of his response.
  • The abruptness of the change in weather caused chaos on the roads.
  • His abruptness in ending the conversation left her feeling unsettled.
  • The abruptness of the decision left many employees feeling uncertain about their future.

On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to abruptness, such as: amazement, astonishment, astoundment, attack, awe, bank, bend.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

back talk

  • abruptness
  • answer back
  • argue
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • back answer
  • backchat
  • bluffness
  • bluntness
  • boldness
  • brazenness
  • brusqueness
  • cheek
  • coarseness
  • comeback
  • complain
  • crassness
  • crossness
  • crudity
  • curtness
  • cuteness
  • discourtesy
  • disrespect
  • gruffness
  • guff
  • impertinence
  • impoliteness
  • impudence
  • insolence
  • insult
  • lip
  • mouth
  • mouth off
  • nasty reply
  • nonsense
  • protest
  • rejoinder
  • retort
  • return
  • riposte
  • rudeness
  • sass
  • sauce
  • short answer
  • surliness
  • tactlessness
  • talk back
  • vulgarity
  • wisecrack

backchat

caddishness

  • abruptness
  • arrogance
  • audacity
  • bluntness
  • boldness
  • boorishness
  • brashness
  • brassiness
  • brusqueness
  • churlishness
  • clownishness
  • conceit
  • conceitedness
  • crabbedness
  • crossness
  • crudeness
  • crustiness
  • curtness
  • dis
  • disagreeableness
  • discourteousness
  • discourtesy
  • disrespect
  • disrespectfulness
  • diss
  • forwardness
  • gruffness
  • grumpiness
  • impertinence
  • impertinency
  • impoliteness
  • improperness
  • impropriety
  • impudence
  • inappropriateness
  • incivility
  • inconsiderateness
  • inconsideration
  • incorrectness
  • indecency
  • insolence
  • loutishness
  • presumption
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • rudeness
  • sauciness
  • shamelessness
  • sharpness
  • sullenness
  • surliness
  • unfitness
  • ungraciousness
  • unsuitability
  • vulgarity

laconism

  • abbreviation
  • abridgement
  • abridgment
  • abruptness
  • blackout
  • brevity
  • briefness
  • brusqueness
  • calm
  • censorship
  • compendiousness
  • compression
  • conciseness
  • condensation
  • contraction
  • crispness
  • curtailment
  • curtness
  • dead air
  • death
  • decreasing
  • diminishing
  • dumbness
  • hush
  • hush-hush
  • inarticulateness
  • iron curtain
  • lessening
  • littleness
  • lull
  • minuteness
  • muteness
  • noiselessness
  • peace
  • pithiness
  • quiescence
  • quiet
  • quietness
  • quietude
  • reducing
  • reserve
  • reticence
  • saturninity
  • secrecy
  • shortening
  • shortness
  • shrinking
  • sleep
  • smallness
  • soundlessness
  • speechlessness
  • still
  • stillness
  • succinctness
  • sulk
  • sullenness
  • taciturnity
  • tautness
  • terseness
  • tininess
  • uncommunicativeness
  • wordlessness

obliqueness

  • abruptness
  • abstruseness
  • abstrusity
  • ambiguity
  • ambiguousness
  • artifice
  • bank
  • bend
  • bevel
  • bias
  • cant
  • circuitousness
  • circuity
  • circumvention
  • cloudiness
  • come-off
  • complexity
  • complication
  • cop-out
  • cunning
  • darkness
  • declination
  • declivity
  • deepness
  • deflection
  • depth
  • descent
  • deviation
  • diagonal
  • difficulty
  • dimness
  • ditch
  • dodge
  • dodging
  • downgrade
  • elusion
  • equivocalness
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • eschewal
  • evading
  • evasiveness
  • excuse
  • faintness
  • fancy footwork
  • fogginess
  • fudging
  • fugiviteness
  • fugivity
  • fuzziness
  • gradient
  • haziness
  • hill
  • impenetrability
  • inclination
  • incline
  • incomprehensibility
  • incomprehensibleness
  • indefiniteness
  • indirectness
  • indistinctness
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutableness
  • jive
  • lean
  • leaning
  • lie
  • mistiness
  • murkiness
  • mysteriousness
  • mystery
  • nebulosity
  • nebulousness
  • obliquity
  • obscurity
  • obtuseness
  • opacity
  • opaqueness
  • pitch
  • pretext
  • prevarication
  • profoundness
  • quibble
  • ramp
  • reconditeness
  • rise
  • rising ground
  • routine
  • runaround
  • ruse
  • shade
  • shadow
  • shelf
  • shift
  • shirking
  • shuffling
  • shunning
  • skew
  • sophism
  • sophistry
  • stall
  • steepness
  • stonewall
  • subterfuge
  • swag
  • sway
  • tip
  • trick
  • trickery
  • uncertainty
  • vagueness

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