HASTE
haste, hurry, rush, rushing
(noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; “in his haste to leave he forgot his book”
haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation
(noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); “he soon regretted his haste”
hurry, haste
(noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; “in a hurry to lock the door”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
haste (uncountable)
Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
(obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
Verb
haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)
(transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
(intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
Synonyms
• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry
Anagrams
• ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat
Source: Wiktionary
Haste, n. Etym: [OE. hast; akin to D. haast, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries.
hast, cf. OF. haste, F. hâte (of German origin); all perh. fr. the
root of E. hate in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See Hate.]
1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; --
applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
The king's business required haste. 1 Sam. xxi. 8.
2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency;
sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, All men are liars. Ps. cxvi. 11.
To make haste, to hasten.
Syn.
– Speed; quickness; nimbleness; swiftness; expedition; dispatch;
hurry; precipitance; vehemence; precipitation.
– Haste, Hurry, Speed, Dispatch. Haste denotes quickness of action
and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes a confusion and
want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed denotes the
actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude and rapidity
with which things are done. A man may properly be in haste, but never
in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.
Haste, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting.]
Etym: [OE. hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw.
hasta, OF. haster, F. hâter. See Haste, n.]
Definition: To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]
I 'll haste the writer. Shak.
They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition