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sudden
[ suhd-n ]
adjective
- happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly:
a sudden attack.
Antonyms: gradual
- occurring without transition from the previous form, state, etc.; abrupt:
a sudden turn.
Antonyms: gradual
- Archaic. quickly made or provided.
- Obsolete. unpremeditated.
adverb
- Literary. without warning; suddenly.
noun
- Obsolete. an unexpected occasion or occurrence.
sudden
/ ˈsʌdən /
adjective
- occurring or performed quickly and without warning
- marked by haste; abrupt
- rare.rash; precipitate
noun
- archaic.an abrupt occurrence or the occasion of such an occurrence (in the phrase on a sudden )
- all of a suddenwithout warning; unexpectedly
adverb
- poetic.without warning; suddenly
Derived Forms
- ˈsuddenness, noun
Other Words From
- sudden·ly adverb
- sudden·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of sudden1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sudden1
Idioms and Phrases
- all of a sudden, without warning; unexpectedly; suddenly. Also on a sudden.
More idioms and phrases containing sudden
see all of a sudden .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
All of a sudden, political videos have started to appear across all categories — humor, beauty, sport.
Thanks to Google's sudden disinterest in iOS app updates, the messages were showing even when users had the latest, two-month-old updates of these Google apps.
As rescue workers search for more than 100 people who are still missing, officials and scientists are trying to unravel the causes of the sudden flood.
The metaphor of “wildfire” became common in descriptions of the disease, especially “flare-ups” as countries that initially brought down their infection rates faced sudden surges of infection.
The curriculum they covered was truncated in response to the sudden closure of schools in March, when the public health emergency slammed the nation.
All of a sudden, she started hearing a series of loud bangs on the doors leading into her office.
“We’re very popular all of a sudden,” said employee Danica Smith, 22, who noted that 100 people had stopped in, nearly double the average Saturday traffic.
I love them but eating them almost always results in a complete sugar crash by mid afternoon wherein everyone around me is punished by my sudden, terrible mood.
Briana, a former medical assistant from Phoenix, Arizona, felt that the pandemic was a sudden but necessary “reality check” for her career.
You may feel great for three or four weeks, and then all of a sudden, you start getting shin pain and foot pain and calf pain.
Because they stopped and I thought, “OK, that makes sense,” and then all of a sudden I saw another issue!
Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.
Airline pilots are now slowly, too slowly, being given access to flight simulators able to reproduce sudden and unexpected upsets.
People will always scratch and save if a sudden burst of unrestrained pleasure can be purchased.
Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.
In its presence--jolting, sudden, horrific—the monster is the monster of grief.
That reactivity paradoxically is what makes its sudden coming and going mysterious.
Then, all of a sudden, we began hearing the same thing from all over.
It is not a knee-jerk response to a sudden perceived threat.
So who better to help guide these newcomers through sudden fame than Belle herself?
No one saw them, and all of a sudden reports of being “difficult” were a real liability.
Then all of a sudden, Akiane was starting to talk about God.
Jam is there because of the sudden death of her boyfriend, Reeve, and the listless state of major depression it throws her into.
Margaret, in the blasted shock of sudden loss, sold most of her possessions and moved to Florida.
Will breakfast at Balthazar bring sudden revelations about Millennials and Gen Xers and their taste in wheels?
Apples uses his journals to take us back to the sudden loss of his 18-year-old son.
They gave sudden meaning to their lives by dealing out violent death.
“Then all of a sudden those doors started opening up more,” he says.
Tatiana says there was one agent behind the sudden popularity of couture—the red carpet.
In Brussels the leaves had begun to fall, and a sudden wind blew them in gusts about the street.
The noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.
The sudden pall of darkness in this strange house of mystery was just a tiny bit awesome.
While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!
They were a well-matched pair; iron-nerved, both of them, the sort of men to face sudden death open-eyed and unafraid.
Aristide, aglow with a sudden impudent inspiration, leant across the marble table.
A few minutes, and he would perhaps have slipped across the border—when something startled him into sudden life again.
He walked about in the dark until, all of a sudden, he stumbled into a hole that was filled with dried grass.
Then, of a sudden, the little colour faded from her cheeks again, and she seemed stricken with a silence.
She resented his sudden drop from his pedestal, for he looked sentimental and somewhat sheepish.
There is a sharp curve in the permanent way outside the station, so that a train is on you all of a sudden.
But this sudden blow was a reminder that fate had been capricious to spoiled darlings before.
For a moment there seemed a sudden light before her eyes, and then a dark mist; in another she recovered herself.
It was a windy night and a sudden gust blew his tall hat into the river, and after it unfortunately dropped the meerschaum.
The idea of Robert starting off in such a ridiculously sudden and dramatic way!
For a second Marius considered whether he might not attempt to elude Garnache by a wild and sudden dash towards his men.
She looked both as she permitted her full red mouth to tremble and his arms to take sudden possession of her.
The cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.
The sudden way she turned upon him, rising from her chair and standing over him, was so startling that he got up too.
The lions stopped also, being evidently taken by surprise at the sudden and unexpected apparition of a man!
He feared to shock her by the sudden mention of the Senora's death; yet that would harm her less than continued anxiety.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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