Delightful vs Sudden - What's the difference?
delightful | sudden |
Pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
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(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
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As adjectives the difference between delightful and sudden
is that delightful is pleasant; pleasing, bringing satisfaction, enjoyment or pleasure while sudden is happening quickly and with little or no warning.As an adverb sudden is
(poetic) suddenly.As a noun sudden is
(obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.delightful
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Alternative forms
* delightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)sudden
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Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=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.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden