Lexic.us

Definition of Suddenly

1. Adverb. Happening unexpectedly. "Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"

2. Adverb. Quickly and without warning. "He stopped suddenly"

3. Adverb. On impulse; without premeditation. "He made up his mind suddenly"

Definition of Suddenly

1. Adverb. Happening quickly and with little or no warning; in a sudden manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suddenly

1. sudden [adv] - See also: sudden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suddenly

sudating sudation sudations sudatoria sudatories sudatorium sudatoriums sudatory sudburyite sudd

suddain sudden sudden death sudden fiction sudden infant death syndrome suddenly (current term) suddenness suddennesses suddens suddenties

suddenty suddenwoven sudder sudders sudds sudoite sudoku sudokuist sudokuists sudokus

Literary usage of Suddenly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... then, as if an idea had suddenly seized him: "Tell me, pray! have you thought about me?" The other shrugged his shoulders: "You are not old enough, ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"The pilgrims arrive at the town of Vanity, where they are ill treated, — Yielding suffering himself to be drawn aside, dies suddenly, — Having left the town ..."

3. Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1895)
"suddenly down from his horse he sprang in amazement, and forward Rushed with ... suddenly out of the grass the long white horns of the cattle Rose like ..."

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