English Dictionary

sudden

/ˈsʌdən/

adj

Happening quickly and with little or no warning. / (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid. / (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

The sudden rain caught us off guard.

意味（1）

Happening quickly and with little or no warning.

From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

意味（2）

(obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;