What is another word for sudden?
521 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ sˈʌdən], [ sˈʌdən], [ s_ˈʌ_d_ə_n]Table of Contents
Similar words for sudden:- abrupt (adjective)
- acute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- dramatic (adjective)
- fleeting (adjective)
- haphazard (adjective)
- hasty (adjective)
- headlong (adjective)
- histrionical (adjective)
- hurried (adjective)
- impatient (adjective)
- impetuous (adjective)
- impulsive (adjective)
- quick (adjective)
- snappy (adjective)
- sudden (adjective)
- surprising (adjective)
- swift (adjective)
- unexpected (adjective)
- unforeseen (adjective)
- short (adverb)
- suddenly (adverb)
- unawares (adverb)
- short (adverb)
- suddenly (adverb)
- unawares (adverb)
- explosive (noun)
- fulminant (noun)
- sudden (noun)
- other synonyms
- brilliant
- flying
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Sudden:
adj.
•abrupt (adjective)- most unanticipated,
- un ceremonious,
- most precipitate,
- more unanticipated,
- un-anticipated,
- un-ceremonious,
- un anticipated.
- more serious,
- over-whelming,
- powerful,
- over whelming,
- more racking,
- over powering,
- more shooting,
- over-powering,
- more acute,
- severe,
- most shooting,
- most racking.
- shortlived,
- flash in pan,
- evanescent,
- impermanent,
- flash pan,
- flash the pan,
- fugacious,
- short lived.
- in-discriminate,
- flukest,
- more unmethodical,
- un systematic,
- de-signless,
- un-organized,
- un concerned,
- un conscious,
- all over map,
- in discriminate,
- un organized,
- un thinking,
- un coordinated,
- un-methodical,
- helter skelter,
- un-premeditated,
- de signless,
- dis organized,
- unsystematic,
- un methodical,
- dis-organized,
- devil may care,
- most unmethodical,
- dis-orderly,
- more designless,
- dis orderly,
- un-concerned,
- willynilly,
- most designless,
- un-thinking,
- fluker,
- helterskelter,
- Willy nilly,
- un-systematic,
- un-coordinated,
- unconscious,
- un premeditated,
- un considered,
- un-considered,
- un-conscious.
- most appetent,
- most chafing,
- more unindulgent,
- most straining,
- more chafing,
- more straining,
- unindulgent,
- on pins needles,
- racing one motor,
- hot tempered,
- racing ones motor,
- most unindulgent,
- in tolerant,
- more appetent,
- un indulgent,
- racing motor,
- quicktempered,
- racing one's motor,
- ripe,
- in-tolerant,
- thirsty,
- quick tempered,
- un-indulgent.
- most unreflecting,
- spur of the moment,
- un-restrained,
- un-planned,
- un reflecting,
- more unreflecting,
- going off deep end,
- un bridled,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- un-bridled,
- going deep end,
- unreflecting,
- un-reflecting,
- un planned.
- Expeditive,
- post haste,
- ex press,
- lead out,
- more expeditive,
- post-haste,
- quickest,
- instantaneous,
- most expeditive,
- ex-press,
- quick.
- more fleet-footed,
- most doublequick,
- more double quick,
- more alacritous,
- most double-quick,
- most speedball,
- shaking leg,
- most fleet footed,
- more doublequick,
- more fleet footed,
- most screaming,
- more fleetfooted,
- most cracking,
- in nothing flat,
- most double quick,
- most fleet-footed,
- fleet-footed,
- more double-quick,
- more barrelling,
- doublequick,
- most alacritous,
- more supersonic,
- more speedball,
- fleetfooted,
- more screaming,
- fleet footed,
- most supersonic,
- most fleetfooted,
- most barrelling,
- double quick,
- more cracking,
- super-sonic,
- super sonic.
- most eyeopening,
- un expected,
- more eye-opening,
- most eye opening,
- most unlookedfor,
- most unlooked-for,
- most unlooked for,
- more unlookedfor,
- eyeopening,
- most payback,
- most eye-opening,
- more eye opening,
- un-heralded,
- not cards,
- unlookedfor,
- un heralded,
- more eyeopening,
- eye opening,
- more unlooked for,
- not the cards,
- not in cards,
- un-expected,
- more unlooked-for,
- more payback.
adv.
•short (adverb) •suddenly (adverb) •unawares (adverb)adv
•short (adverb) •suddenly (adverb) •unawares (adverb)n.
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- fast,
- precipitate,
- surprise.
Other synonyms:
•brilliant •flying •Other relevant words:- emergent,
- unheralded,
- unthinking,
- subversion,
- chance,
- brisk,
- banner,
- change of state,
- smack,
- coincidence,
- sharply,
- precipitancy,
- numbing,
- snap,
- dash,
- instinctive,
- touchy,
- improbable,
- full,
- waspish,
- convulsive,
- quantum jump,
- peppery,
- jerking,
- impressive,
- hotheaded,
- impulsively,
- phase change,
- tempt,
- actuate,
- contravene,
- accelerated,
- wealth,
- russias,
- fright,
- disturb,
- cheat,
- fiery,
- slope,
- delude,
- summary,
- Speeded,
- express,
- cutting,
- in haste,
- aback,
- fortuitous,
- enliven,
- stupefying,
- nimble,
- injudicious,
- involuntary,
- hurriedly,
- stimulate,
- graphic,
- quickly,
- go against,
- provoke,
- plop,
- snappy,
- piercing,
- striking,
- foolish,
- intense,
- streamer,
- impromptu,
- unhesitating,
- out-of-the-way,
- unplanned,
- unaware,
- prey,
- shortly,
- lightning,
- rapidly,
- clean sweep,
- brief,
- surprisingly,
- overnight,
- extemporaneous,
- all of a sudden,
- improvisation,
- absolute,
- violent,
- timely,
- rapid,
- break through,
- prompt,
- sharp,
- have,
- revolution,
- radical,
- abet,
- unanticipatedly,
- momentary,
- flag,
- undivined,
- unannounced,
- instant,
- techy,
- near,
- reckless,
- complete,
- stabbing,
- abruptness,
- unpremeditated,
- expeditious,
- euthanasia,
- pettish,
- exceptional,
- arouse,
- steepness,
- stir,
- haste,
- penetrating,
- destruction,
- inspiration,
- triggered,
- betray,
- unpredictable,
- momentarily,
- dead,
- deceive,
- extreme,
- rushing,
- induce,
- mind-blowing,
- ensign,
- suddenness,
- disease,
- impulse,
- wake,
- choppy,
- shock,
- quickened,
- steep,
- slap,
- unusual,
- petulant,
- tetchy,
- excruciating,
- impetuously,
- untimely end,
- Subito,
- breakneck,
- major,
- bang,
- feverishly,
- casualty,
- pennant,
- absolutely,
- shrewish,
- effective,
- breathless,
- overhasty,
- lively,
- unexpectedly,
- unpredicted,
- entice,
- whirlwind,
- jut out,
- offhand,
- accident,
- offend,
- quantum leap,
- high-speed,
- devil-may-care,
- abruptly,
- breathtaking,
- utterly,
- unwonted,
- snappish,
- noticeable,
- imprudent,
- impel,
- hot,
- spontaneous,
- panting,
- short,
- out of the blue,
- perfect,
- fierce,
- paroxysmal,
- rashly,
- rude,
- perpendicular,
- spurt,
- swiftly,
- very,
- choleric,
- loss,
- passionate,
- killing,
- simulate,
- abundance,
- electrifying,
- precipitance,
- unforeseeable,
- vertical,
- precipitously,
- pennon,
- excite,
- forthwith,
- incite,
- pop,
- instantly,
- incautious,
- wild,
- speedy,
- death blow,
- fortune,
- suffocation,
- huffy,
- asphyxia,
- spasmodic,
- vivid,
- unprepared for,
- alarm,
- foolhardy,
- jerky,
- plump,
- unconsidered,
- emotional,
- snapper,
- shooting,
- chimney,
- flash,
- discontinuous,
- unfore,
- Unguessed,
- perfunctory,
- irritate,
- hastily,
- exquisite,
- considerable,
- poignant,
- testy,
- automatic,
- rash,
- sniff,
- spastic,
- start,
- warm,
- plunk,
- mind-boggling,
- reflex,
- violent death,
- wonder,
- blow,
- without warning,
- marked,
- radical change,
- madcap,
- all of,
- drastic,
- thunderclap,
- stir up,
- fleet,
- NATURAL DEATH,
- thoughtless,
- feign,
- get,
- sheer,
- jolt,
- Spasmodical,
- of a sudden,
- pretend,
- perfectly,
- curt,
- all at once,
- Bouleversement,
- fall prostrate.
Paraphrases for Sudden:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
abrupt.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
sudden-onset.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
brusque, Precipitated, unplanned, unintended, hasty, spontaneous, immediate, spectacular, acute, unpredictable, precipitate, stunning.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
precipitous, surprising, unforeseen, unannounced, unanticipated, short-notice, sharp, dramatic, surprise, brutal, drastic, unexpected, steep, untimely, brutish, violent.
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Proper noun, singular
surprise, unexpected.
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Noun, singular or mass
surprise.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Sudden:
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adj.
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all
gradual.
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Other antonyms:
gradatory, unsurprising, graduated, piecemeal, predicted, expected, gradational, anticipated, stepwise, in small stages, foreseen.
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all
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Other antonyms:
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n.
dull, flat, natural, nonexplosive, unsudden.
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n.