Urgent vs Sudden - What's the difference?
urgent | sudden |
Requiring immediate attention.
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
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, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
As adjectives the difference between urgent and sudden
is that urgent is requiring immediate attention 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.urgent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
Synonyms
* pressing * needlyDerived terms
* urgently * urgencyAnagrams
* ----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
