Rude vs Sudden - What's the difference?
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As a proper noun rude is settlement in croatia, near zagreb. As an adjective 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.
rude English
(mismatch between senses and translations)
Adjective
( er)
bad-mannered
- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* rudeness
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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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