Untimely vs Sudden - What's the difference?
untimely | sudden |
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
As adjectives the difference between untimely and sudden
is that untimely is at an inopportune time 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.untimely
English
Synonyms
* (at an inopportune time ): inopportune * (early, premature ): before time, early, prematureAntonyms
* (at an inopportune time ): opportune, timely * (early, premature ): ** (at the right time ): timely, on time, to time ** (late ): behind time, late, tardyDerived terms
* untimelinessAnagrams
*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
