sudden

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/ˈsʌdn̩/

adj 3adv 1noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, large, loud

A loud sudden noise woke me up in the middle of the night.

VERB + SUDDEN

adapt, brought, dealt, upset

The company had to adapt to the sudden changes in market demand.

SUDDEN + NOUN

cars, death, dogs, halt, illness, noise, sky, temperature

The sudden noise from the street made everyone in the office jump with fright.

PREP.

There was a sudden in the weather and we had to cancel our picnic plans.

Definitions

adj

Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.

The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.

Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

adv

Suddenly.

Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

noun

An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

Antonyms

gradual

Idioms & Phrases

a short drop and a sudden stop

A fall to one's death by hanging.

I see, in other words, a short drop and then a sudden stop?

Example Bank

The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

Wiktionary

From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

Wiktionary

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the f

Wiktionary

Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

Wiktionary

Why are you telling me about hippos all of the sudden? I don't see the connection between that and your twelve red goldfishes.

Tatoeba · #2385

The sudden increase of cars is causing a large number of traffic accidents every day.

Tatoeba · #18684

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, sudden is marked as obsolete, poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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