Synonyms for sudden
ˈsʌd nsud·den

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1. suddennoun

   Antonyms:
   unsudden, gradual

2. suddenadjective

   Happening quickly and with little or no warning, snell.

   The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

   Antonyms:
   gradual, unsudden

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1. sudden

   Synonyms:
   unanticipated, hasty, rash, quick, unexpected, abrupt

   Antonyms:
   gradual, expected, transitional, slow, premonished, anticipated

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1. suddenadjective

   happening without warning or in a short space of time

   "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"

   Antonyms:
   gradatory, graduated, piecemeal, stepwise, gradational, gradual, bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step

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1. suddenadjective

   Synonyms:
   unexpected, abrupt, unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for

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1. suddenadjective

   Synonyms:
   unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for

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1. List of paraphrases for "sudden":

   abrupt, sudden-onset, unexpected, surprise, suddenly, short-notice, brutal, sharp, snap, precipitous, surprising, unannounced, flash

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1. Jennifer Tilly:

   It's really astonishing to me how in the last five months, all of a sudden, she goes to an event with John Wick and everybody goes insane, like,' It's John Wick new girlfriend,' because she had gone to a lot of events with John Wick, it's just suddenly surfaced that John Wick's been dating her for several years.

2. Kate Caithness:

   In the past it has been a sport played by the older generation, if I could say that really, but now, since 2010, since we had the Olympics in Vancouver, all of a sudden it just changed the whole profile of our sport. And as you can see on the ice, we’ve had so many young people play our sport.

3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

   God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

4. Hubert Malicote:

   We just kind of live by the day and all of a sudden we're 100 years old.

5. Victoria Vetter:

   We have fire drills in schools generally, every month. We have active shooter drills. But we do not in most schools have sudden cardiac arrest drills.