Impatience vs Abrupt - What's the difference?
impatience | abrupt |
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.
(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Henry VI Part I, II-iii
Curt in manner; brusque; rude; uncivil; impolite.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
(obsolete) Broken off.
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
* (rfdate) (Thomson)
(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
(archaic) To tear off or asunder.
* (rfdate) Sir T. (Browne)
To interrupt suddenly.
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As nouns the difference between impatience and abrupt
is that impatience is the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something while abrupt is (poetic) something which is ; an abyss .As an adjective abrupt is
(obsolete|rare) broken away (from restraint) .As a verb abrupt is
(archaic) to tear off or asunder .impatience
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Noun
Antonyms
* patience * hasteabrupt
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
- The cause of your abrupt departure.
- The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
- Tumbling through ricks abrupt .
- (Gray)
Synonyms
* (precipitous) broken, rough, rugged * (without time to prepare) brusque, sudden * (uncivil)blunt, brusque * (without transition) disconnected, unexpectedVerb
(en verb)- Till death abrupts them.