suddenとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌdən/, [ˈsʌdn̩]
• 韻: -ʌdən
• ハイフネーション: sud‧den

形容詞

sudden (comparative more sudden, superlative most sudden)

1. Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
   • 1552, The Boke of Common Prayer [etc.]‎^[1], The Letanie:

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

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

   The sudden drop in temperature left everyone cold and confused.

2. (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
   • c. 1599, Shakespeare, William, Henry V, act 1, scene 1:

     Never was such a sudden scholar made.

   • 1649, Milton, John, Eikonoklastes:

     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.

3. (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
   • c. 1591–1595, Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet, act 2, scene 2:

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

同意語

• (happening quickly): abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
• (hasty, rash): hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive; see also Thesaurus:reckless

反意語

• (happening quickly): gradual; see also Thesaurus:gradual
• (all): unsudden

派生語

副詞

sudden (comparative more sudden, superlative most sudden)

1. (poetic) Suddenly.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

名詞

sudden (複数形 suddens)

1. (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

派生語

• all of a sudden
• all of the sudden
• of a sudden
• on a sudden
• upon a sudden

Further reading

• sudden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sudden in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• sudden at OneLook Dictionary Search