Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈsʌd.ən/
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[ˈsʌd.n̩]
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ˈsʌdən
Adjective
Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
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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.
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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 first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Usage- Obsolete
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Never was such a sudden scholar made.
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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.
And if along with these should come The man I held as half-divine; Should strike a sudden hand in mine, And ask a thousand things of home; […] I should not feel it to be strange.
Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
Usage- Obsolete
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I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Adverb
Suddenly.
Usage- Poetic
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Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
Noun
An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
Usage- Obsolete
Adjective
happening without warning or in a short space of time
- Antonyms
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a sudden storm
a sudden decision
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a sudden cure