Antonyms for sudden
ˈsʌd nsud·den

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1. suddennoun

   Antonyms:
   unsudden, gradual

2. suddenadjective

   Happening quickly and with little or no warning, snell.

   The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

   Antonyms:
   gradual, unsudden

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1. sudden

   Antonyms:
   gradual, expected, transitional, slow, premonished, anticipated

   Synonyms:
   unanticipated, hasty, rash, quick, unexpected, abrupt

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1. suddenadjective

   happening without warning or in a short space of time

   "a sudden storm"; "a sudden decision"; "a sudden cure"

   Antonyms:
   gradatory, graduated, piecemeal, stepwise, gradational, gradual, bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step

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1. suddenadjective

   Synonyms:
   unexpected, abrupt, unlocked for

How to use sudden in a sentence?

1. Todd Kennedy:

   They never heard from me, so now you’ve got these children that I’ve been coaching since August and all of a sudden their coach just disappears.

2. Steven Haddad:

   Stress fractures rarely occur in individuals training consistently on the same surface, it is a change in surfaces, or a sudden change in distance, that can create stress fractures.

3. Robert Bertram:

   I can admit that this was probably one of the worst days ever, and then all of a sudden it turned into one of the best of my life because of my teammates and my hometown crowd.

4. Nick Faldo:

   What happened to Jordan Spieth, it was so sudden, just bam, it was 10 minutes of golf. That's the harshness of it.

5. Tayla Lynn:

   You’re sitting there in the middle of this fancy neighborhood in Seattle, not being faithful in your marriage and breastfeeding your baby while you’re doing drugs, and all of a sudden you wake up and say to yourself, ‘What in the hell am I doing?!

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