LekhoriLekhoriOccurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.
Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
Never was such a sudden scholar made.
Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Suddenly.
Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.
An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
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 sub...
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