sudden

1. 1

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

   • The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
2. 2

   Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.obsolete

   • 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.
3. 3

   Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.obsolete

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

syn. precipitous · subitaneous · impetuous · impulsive · precipitant · precipitate · spontaneous · sudden · suddent

ant. gradual · unsudden · eventual

1. 1

   Suddenly.poetic

   • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

1. 1

   An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.obsolete