sudden

1. (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.Examples: "Never was such a sudden scholar made."; "Thus these pious flourishes and colours, examined thoroughly, are like the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye; but look well upon them, or at least but touch them, and they turn into cinders."; "And if along with these should come ⁠The man I held as half-divine; ⁠Should strike a sudden hand in mine, And ask a thousand things of home; […] I should not feel it to be strange."obsolete

2. (obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.Examples: "I have no joy of this contract to-night: / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;"Synonyms: hotheadedobsolete