sudden

Meanings

Adjective

• Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
• Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
• Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

Adverb

• Suddenly.

Noun

• An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Related

Opposite words

• unsudden

Origin

• From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain, from Vulgar Latin *subitānus, from Latin subitāneus, from subitus, originally the past participle of subeō, from sub + eō. subitaneous.