Haste

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Rapidity of action or motion.
  • n. Overeagerness to act.
  • n. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness.
  • v. To hasten or cause to hasten.
  • idiom. make haste To move or act swiftly; hurry.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A speedy or quick action. (e.g. We were running late so we finished our meal in haste)
  • v. To urge onward; to hasten
  • v. To move with haste.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
  • n. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • v. To hasten; to hurry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Celerity, primarily of voluntary motion; speed in general; swiftness in doing something; despatch; expedition.
  • n. Too great celerity of action; unwise, unnecessary, or unseemly quickness; precipitancy.
  • n. The state of being pressed for time, or of having little time to spare; hurry; eager desire to accomplish something in a limited time: as, to be in great haste to finish a letter.
  • n. Synonyms Haste, hurry (see hasten); nimbleness, rapidity.
  • Same as hasten: now chiefly in poetical use.
  • To roast.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
  • n. overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
  • n. the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
  • Antonym
    Verb Form
    hasted    hastes    hasting   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    urgency   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    hasted    hasting    post haste    hasten    hasty    hastily    hastiness    posthaste    make haste   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expedition    hurry    speed    precipitation    vehemence    swiftness    quickness    dispatch    nimbleness    precipitance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aced    based    baste    braced    chased    chaste    debased    defaced    disgraced    displaced   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    eagerness    hurry    impatience    anxiety    agitation    urgency    confusion    vehemence    rapidity    anger