Surprise vs Sudden - What's the difference?
surprise | sudden |
Something not expected.
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= (attributive) Unexpected.
The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
To undergo or witness something unexpected.
To cause surprise.
To attack unexpectedly.
To take unawares.
Unexpected.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete terms the difference between surprise and sudden
is that surprise is a dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents while sudden is an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.As nouns the difference between surprise and sudden
is that surprise is something not expected while sudden is an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.As adjectives the difference between surprise and sudden
is that surprise is unexpected while sudden is happening quickly and with little or no warning.As a verb surprise
is to cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.As an adverb sudden is
suddenly.surprise
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Alternative forms
* (l) (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}
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Synonyms
* unexpected * (feeling) astonishmentDerived terms
* take by surpriseVerb
(surpris)- It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
- He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
- He doesn’t surprise easily.
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}} 1000 English basic words ----
sudden
English
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