SUDDENLY Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

suddenly

adverb

Definition of suddenly

as in abruptly

with great suddenness the bus stopped suddenly, and somebody's lunch landed in the aisle

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as in unexpectedly

without warning suddenly, something fell out of the sky and landed in the field a few feet away

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Recent Examples of suddenly The reports about the Buss family’s stake comes a few days after Lakers owner Mark Walter suddenly agreed to sell the team to Kushner and Iger last week amid a federal fraud investigation, giving them a roughly 65% stake in the team. — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The business was forced to close, leaving Stroh, her husband and their staff out of a job suddenly. — Olivia Young, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 When Levelle Bailey suffered a fractured leg in Friday’s preseason opener in Atlanta, the Broncos suddenly lost the most experienced player among their reserve inside linebackers. — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026 On Sunday, starting right guard Dominick Puni (who is excellent) missed practice with a concussion, and the entire interior-line depth chart suddenly looked like a fire drill at a circus. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026 Then, in the meditation hall, our cheery host suddenly turned serious and began pounding on a 350-year-old drum from a samurai castle used for marking the beginning of chores. — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026 What felt like a reliable payment method may suddenly become a source of stress. — Td Bank, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026 After a long residential-and-commercial stretch, the park, which was established in the nineteen-seventies on a former industrial site, suddenly came into view. — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 That drama came during the first few months of the period being covered in the doc as Guardiola, fresh off the back of his GOAT-like title quadruple, suddenly found results turning for the worst. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for suddenly

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In a lawsuit filed in Denver District Court, first reported by industry publication Current, the station claims its access was abruptly cut off earlier this year by Open Source Storage (OSS).

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
All five were hammered the following month as the AI trade abruptly reversed, helping push the fund to the brink and forcing it to unload much of its public-equity portfolio to Citadel.

— Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of abruptly

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There is also the possibility that a Double Gameweek unexpectedly appears before Gameweek 19, although that would likely require a postponement.

— Abdul Rehman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July as a boost from government tax refunds faded.

— Anne D'Innocenzio, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026