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