of a sudden

Speech parts

1. of a sudden - Adverb

2. of a sudden - Phrase

Meaning

happening unexpectedly

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Synonyms

suddenly all of a sudden bang sharp abruptly plump plunk surprisingly unexpectedly all at once out of the blue Out of nowhere before you can say knife in one stroke at one stroke
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Antonyms

slow gradually slowly regularly constantly consistently
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Examples

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. Robert Browning

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. Albert Einstein

There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose. Eddie Vedder

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed. Samuel Johnson

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. Vida Blue

When someone's wealth improves, all of a sudden their house's columns appear to be crooked. Armenian Proverb

Words in the phrase

of a sudden

Close letter words and terms

of a similar stamp of a similar stripe of a snake of a surety of a tribe of a truth