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sudden

adj
/ˈsʌd.ən/

Etymology

From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subitānus (“sudden”), from Latin subitāneus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of subīre (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + īre (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous. Displaced native Old English fǣrlīċ.

  1. inherited from sodeyn

Definitions

  1. Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation

    Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.

    • The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
    • From lightninges and tempeſtes, from plage, peſtilence, and famine, from battayle and murther, and from ſodayn death. / Good lord deliver us.

  2. Hastily prepared or employed

    Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

    • Never was such a sudden scholar made.
    • Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders.
    • And if along with these should come ⁠The man I held as half-divine; ⁠Should strike a sudden hand in mine, And ask a thousand things of home; […] I should not feel it to be strange.

  3. Hasty

    Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

    • I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Suddenly.

      • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    2. An unexpected occurrence

      An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sudden. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sudden. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sudden

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA