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haste

[ heyst ]
/ heɪst /
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noun
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.
verb (used with or without object), hast·ed, hast·ing.
Archaic. to hasten.
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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

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old French from Germanic; akin to Old Frisian hāste,Old English hæst “violence,” Old Norse heifst “hatred,” Gothic haifsts “quarrel”

synonym study for haste

1. See speed.

OTHER WORDS FROM haste

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Words related to haste

alacrity, urgency, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurriedness, hustle, impatience, impetuosity

How to use haste in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for haste

haste
/ (heɪst) /
noun
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
verb
a poetic word for hasten

Derived forms of haste

hasteful, adjectivehastefully, adverb

Word Origin for haste

C14: from Old French haste, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse heifst hate, Old English hǣst strife, Old High German heisti powerful
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