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