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Definition of 'sudden'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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(obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
* Milton
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
Antonyms
* gradual
* unsudden
Derived terms
* all of a sudden
* sudden death
* suddenly
* suddenness
* suddenwoven
Adverb
( en-adv)
(poetic) Suddenly.
* Milton
- Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Derived terms
* all of a sudden
* all of the sudden
* of a sudden
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