SUDDENNESS Antonyms

• carefully thought out in advance

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• characterized by conscious design or purpose

• think about carefully; weigh

• discuss the pros and cons of an issue

• the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual

• the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages

• in an unhurried way or at one's convenience

• not hurried or forced

• having notes of fixed rhythmic value

• the rhythmic arrangement of syllables

• carefully thought out in advance

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• relatively long in duration; tediously protracted

• drawn out or made longer spatially

• under restraint

• cool and formal in manner

• marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes

• not showy or obtrusive

• prudent

• not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

• at a slow tempo

• (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

• without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

• showing a time that is earlier than the actual time

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

• (of business) not active or brisk

• lose velocity; move more slowly

• become slow or slower

• cause to proceed more slowly

• not subject to change or variation especially in behavior

• a person loved by another person

• in a steady manner

• not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall

• securely in position; not shaky

• marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable

• relating to a person who does something regularly

• not easily excited or upset

• make steady

• support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

• relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste

• capable of accepting delay with equanimity