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Sudden vs Accelerated - What's the difference?

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Sudden is a related term of accelerated.


As adjectives the difference between sudden and accelerated

is that sudden is happening quickly and with little or no warning while accelerated is moving or progressing faster than is usual.

As an adverb sudden

is (poetic) suddenly.

As a noun sudden

is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

As a verb accelerated is

(accelerate).

sudden

English

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

    Antonyms

    * gradual * unsudden

    Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * sudden death * suddenly * suddenness * suddenwoven

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (poetic) Suddenly.
  • * Milton
  • Herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
  • Derived terms

    * all of a sudden * all of the sudden * of a sudden

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    accelerated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (accelerate)
  • Adjective

  • Moving or progressing faster than is usual.
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  • Happening sooner than expected.
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