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sudden

sud·den

sudden

 
 
pronunciation:
suh dn
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: happening without notice or warning; not expected.
A sudden noise frightened us.
synonyms:
abrupt, surprising
definition 2: sharp, quick or abrupt.
I made a sudden turn into the traffic.There was a sudden change in her mood.
synonyms:
abrupt, rapid, sharp
similar words:
hasty, immediate, impetuous, instant, quick, rash, swift
Word Combinations  About this feature
(adj.)sudden + noun absence, acceleration, affection, alarm, anger, anxiety, appearance, arrest, arrival, attack, awakening, awareness, blast, blow, breath, breeze, burst, calm, certainty, change, chill, clarity, cold, collapse, commotion, conversion, crack, cry, darkness, death, disappearance, dizziness, downpour, drop, emotion, eruption, explosion, fame, fear, fit, flare, flash, flood, flurry, fortune, fury, gesture, glare, gust, halt, hearing, horror, hush, illness, impulse, increase, infant, insight, inspiration, intensity, jerk, jolt, jump, laughter, leap, lightning, loss, lurch, mood, motion, move, movement, nausea, noise, onset, outburst, pain, pang, panic, passion, popularity, rage, rain, realization, recognition, release, resignation, revelation, rise, roar, rush, scream, sensation, shift, shock, silence, spike, squall, stab, stop, storm, surge, suspicion, switch, symptom, syndrome, tear, temperature, terror, thought, thunderstorm, transformation, turn, twist, urge, vision, warmth, wave, weakness, wealth, wind [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: suddenly (adv.), suddenness (n.)