haste
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
urgent need of quick action; a hurry or rush: to be in haste to get ahead in the world.
unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed: Haste makes waste.
Idioms about haste
make haste, to act or go with speed; hurry: She made haste to tell the president the good news.
Origin of haste
1synonym study For haste
Other words for haste
Opposites for haste
Other words from haste
- hasteful, adjective
- haste·ful·ly, adverb
- hasteless, adjective
- haste·less·ness, noun
- un·hast·ed, adjective
- un·hast·ing, adjective
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How to use haste in a sentence
With the beloved hosts of Indra, with the blameless, hasting (Maruts), the sacrificer cries aloud.
Sacred Books of the East | VariousHere they met a number of Arabs, hasting towards the town in a somewhat excited frame of mind.
The Middy and the Moors | R.M. BallantyneAs I recall it, no spoken word of Jennifer's or mine came in to break the rhythm of the hasting voyage.
The Master of Appleby | Francis LyndeI was a youth on a white horse, leaping from cloud to cloud of a blue heaven, hasting calmly to some blessed goal.
Lilith | George MacDonaldWith this I was hasting away from him, but he held my hand and looked round at me.
Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore
British Dictionary definitions for haste
/ (heɪst) /
speed, esp in an action; swiftness; rapidity
the act of hurrying in a careless or rash manner
a necessity for hurrying; urgency
make haste to hurry; rush
a poetic word for hasten
Origin of haste
1Derived forms of haste
- hasteful, adjective
- hastefully, adverb
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with haste
In addition to the idiom beginning with haste
- haste makes waste
also see:
- make haste
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