different between sweeping vs sudden

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swi?p??/
• Rhymes: -i?p??
• Hyphenation: sweep?ing

Verb

sweeping

1. present participle of sweep

Noun

sweeping (countable and uncountable, plural sweepings)

1. (countable) An instance of sweeping.

   The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.

2. (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.

   Sweeping took all morning.

   The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.

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Adjective

sweeping (comparative more sweeping, superlative most sweeping)

1. wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things

   The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.

   He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.

   • 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, "Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

     By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”

2. Completely overwhelming

   He claimed a sweeping victory.

Synonyms

• (wide; broad): across-the-board; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive or Thesaurus:generic

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Anagrams

• weepings

English

Etymology

From Middle English sodeyn, sodain, from Anglo-Norman sodein, from Old French sodain, subdain (“immediate, sudden”), from Vulgar Latin *subit?nus (“sudden”), from Latin subit?neus (“sudden”), from subitus (“sudden", literally, "that which has come stealthily”), originally the past participle of sub?re (“to come or go stealthily”), from sub (“under”) + ?re (“go”). Doublet of subitaneous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?d?n/, [?s?dn?]
• Rhymes: -?d?n
• Hyphenation: sud?den

Adjective

sudden (comparative more sudden, superlative most sudden)

1. Happening quickly and with little or no warning.

2. (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
3. (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

Synonyms

• (happening quickly): abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous; see also Thesaurus:sudden
• (hasty, rash): hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive; see also Thesaurus:reckless

Antonyms

• (happening quickly): gradual; see also Thesaurus:gradual
• (all): unsudden

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

sudden (comparative more sudden, superlative most sudden)

1. (poetic) Suddenly.

Noun

sudden (plural suddens)

1. (obsolete) An unexpected occurrence; a surprise.

Derived terms

• all of a sudden
• all of the sudden
• of a sudden
• on a sudden
• upon a sudden

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Further reading

• sudden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sudden in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sudden at OneLook Dictionary Search