Definition of Sudden

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Sudden

Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.

Hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

Suddenly; unexpectedly.

An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Related Definitions:

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Sudden Quotations

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Saul Alinsky

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
David Letterman

Sudden Translations

sudden in Danish is pludselig
sudden in Dutch is plotseling
sudden in French is brusque, subit
sudden in Latin is repens, subitus
sudden in Portuguese is repentino

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