# sudden
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsʌdən/, [ˈsʌdn̩]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌdən
* Hyphenation: sud‧den

### Adjective

sudden (comparative suddener, superlative suddenest)
* Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
    The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
** 1552, The Boke of Common Prayer [etc.]‎, The Letanie:From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: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.
* (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
** c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 1, scene 1:Never was such a sudden scholar made.
** 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes: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.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XIV, page 22: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.
* (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
** c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 2, scene 2:I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

#### Synonyms

* (happening quickly): abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
* (hasty, rash): hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive; see also Thesaurus:reckless

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “happening quickly”): gradual; see also Thesaurus:gradual
* (antonym(s) of “all”): unsudden

#### Derived terms

* all of a sudden
* all on a sudden
* all the sudden
* a quick drop and a sudden stop
* a short drop and a sudden stop
* sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
* sudden death
* sudden fiction
* sudden infant death syndrome
* suddenly
* suddenness
* sudden oak death
* sudden sniffing death syndrome
* sudden stratospheric warming
* suddenty
* sudden unexpected death syndrome
* sudden unexplained death syndrome
* sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome
* sudden victory
* suddenwoven

#### Translations
### Adverb

sudden (comparative more sudden, superlative most sudden)
* (poetic) Suddenly.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

### Noun

sudden (plural suddens)
* (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

#### Derived terms

* all of a sudden
* all of the sudden
* of a sudden
* on a sudden
* upon a sudden

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “sudden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sudden”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “sudden”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Swedish
### Noun

sudden
* definite singular of sudd c
* definite plural of sudd n