Antonyms for SUDDENLYsud·den·ly

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1. suddenlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   unsuddenly

   Synonyms:
   all of a sudden, without warning

2. suddenlyadverb

   Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner.

   Suddenly, the heavens opened and we all got drenched.

   Synonyms:
   without warning, all of a sudden

   Antonyms:
   unsuddenly

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. suddenly, all of a sudden, of a suddenadverb

   happening unexpectedly

   "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"

   Synonyms:
   on the spur of the moment, suddenly, short, of a sudden, dead, abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden

2. abruptly, suddenly, short, deadadverb

   quickly and without warning

   "he stopped suddenly"

   Synonyms:
   shortly, curtly, on the spur of the moment, perfectly, suddenly, short, absolutely, of a sudden, dead, utterly, unawares, abruptly, all of a sudden

3. on the spur of the moment, suddenlyadverb

   on impulse; without premeditation

   "he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment"; "he made up his mind suddenly"

   Synonyms:
   dead, on the spur of the moment, all of a sudden, of a sudden, short, abruptly, suddenly

How to use SUDDENLY in a sentence?

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941:

   Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

2. Gu Yongtao:

   The slump apparently triggered intensified selling, while the triggering of the circuit breaker seems to have heightened panic, as liquidity was suddenly gone and this is something no one has experienced before, it was a stampede.

3. Nishant Batra:

   This market has suddenly come alive for us. When you go from level 1 to level 3, some of the centralization of computing already starts.

4. Udi Mokady:

   Suddenly, the music has completely changed.

5. Jonathan Murray:

   For a lot of people, that was the first person with AIDS they ever met. Suddenly, there was a face on this disease, the fact that he was working so hard to try and educate other young people about the need to protect themselves from AIDS, it was just a powerful story.

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