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haste
[ heyst ]
noun
- swiftness of motion; speed; celerity:
He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
Antonyms:
- urgent need of quick action; a hurry or rush:
to be in haste to get ahead in the world.
Synonyms: , , ,
- unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed:
Haste makes waste.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used with or without object)
- Archaic. to hasten.
haste
/ ɪ /
noun
- speed, esp in an action; swiftness; rapidity
- the act of hurrying in a careless or rash manner
- a necessity for hurrying; urgency
- make hasteto hurry; rush
verb
- a poetic word for hasten
Derived Forms
- ˈٱڳܱ, adjective
- ˈٱڳܱly, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ٱfܱ adjective
- ٱfܱ·ly adverb
- ٱl adjective
- ٱl·ness noun
- ܲ·Ļ adjective
- ܲ·iԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of haste1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of haste1
Idioms and Phrases
- make haste, to act or go with speed; hurry:
She made haste to tell the president the good news.
More idioms and phrases containing haste
In addition to the idiom beginning with haste , also see make haste .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Don’t sell in haste,” she told one resident.
Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste.
“That request was unprecedented,” Flick says, not only in its nature but its haste.
"That debris was cleared in such haste that maybe some of the remains also got destroyed in the process," she said.
But he warned against making decisions in haste — in part because rules and regulations can change, affecting what and how you’re able to rebuild.
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More About Haste
What doeshaste mean?
Haste most commonly refers to urgency, such as in completing a task.
It can also be used as another word for speed or swiftness, as in We have to move with haste if we want to make it on time. The phrase make haste means to move quickly, hurry up, or rush.
Often, haste means urgency or speed that is careless or reckless. This is how the word is used in the expression haste makes waste, which means that rushing things leads to mistakes.
The adjective form hasty is most often used in this sense—a hasty decision is one that is thought to have been made too quickly, perhaps leading to negative consequences. The adverb form is hastily.
The verb hasten means to go faster or cause to go faster, as in We need to hasten our efforts.
Example: In my haste to finish the project, I forgot to put my name on it.
Where doeshaste come from?
The first records of the word haste come from the 1200s. It’s related to the Old English æ, “vDZԳ,” the Old Norse heifst, “hٰ,” the Gothic haifsts, “quarrel,” and the Old High German heisti, ‼Ƿɱڳܱ.”
Haste is most often used in a negative way, but not as negative as a word like hatred. Most of the time, haste implies that something was simply done too fast, leading to mistakes.
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How ishaste used in real life?
Haste is less commonly used than many of its synonyms, such as urgency.
When I'm checking out a restaurant's menu online, I find that I scroll past the salad section with some haste.
— Tim Foust (@TimFoustMusic)
In my haste to get to the Convention Centre from the Dáil on Thursday evening I forgot to bring a shirt. It was either go cycling top or not speak at all. I chose to speak about a very important matter. That’s what matters, not what you happen to wear. Up the Reds!!
— Gino Kenny TD (@Ginosocialist)
Today's the last day we're accepting submissions for our identity issue—if you have something you'd like to send us, make haste! ☀️☀️☀️
— The Open Culture Collective (@tocc_)
Try usinghaste!
Which of the following words is NOT a synonym of haste?
A. speed
B. rapidity
C. thoroughness
D. urgency
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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