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Sudden vs Ictic - What's the difference?

sudden | ictic |

As adjectives the difference between sudden and ictic

is that sudden is happening quickly and with little or no warning while ictic is pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.

As an adverb sudden

is suddenly.

As a noun sudden

is an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

sudden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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  • (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Never was such a sudden scholar made.
  • * Milton
    • the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
  • (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden

    Antonyms

    * gradual * unsudden

    Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * sudden death * suddenly * suddenness * suddenwoven

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) Suddenly.
  • * Milton
    • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

    • Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * all of the sudden * of a sudden

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    External links

    * * * English adjectives ending in -en 1000 English basic words

    ictic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.
    • (Webster 1913)