haste

haste  (hst)

n.

1. Rapidity of action or motion.

2. Overeagerness to act.

3. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness.

intr. & tr.v. hast·ed, hast·ing, hastes

To hasten or cause to hasten.

Idiom:

make haste

To move or act swiftly; hurry.

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[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

Synonyms: haste, celerity, dispatch, expedition, hurry, speed
These nouns denote rapidity or promptness of movement or activity: left the room in haste; a legal system not known for celerity; advanced with all possible dispatch; cleaned up with remarkable expedition; worked without hurry; driving with excessive speed.

Antonym: deliberation

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haste

Noun

1. speed, esp. in an action

2. the act of hurrying in a careless manner

3. make haste to hurry or rush

Verb

[hasting, hasted]

Poetic to hasten [Old French]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	haste - overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste" hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation fastness, swiftness, speed - a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens; "the project advanced with gratifying speed" precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness, precipitousness, abruptness - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
	2.	haste - the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" rush, rushing, hurry movement, move, motion - the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" bolt, dash - the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door" scamper, scurry, scramble - rushing about hastily in an undignified way
	3.	haste - a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door" hurry urgency - the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity

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haste

noun speed, rapidity, urgency, expedition, dispatch, velocity, alacrity, quickness, swiftness, briskness, nimbleness, fleetness, celerity, promptitude, rapidness << OPPOSITE slowness

Translations

haste [heɪst] n → prisa

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haste [heɪst] n → hâte f, précipitation f;

in haste → à la hâte, précipitamment

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haste [heɪst] n → Hast f;

(speed) → Eile f;

in haste → in Eile;

to make haste (to do sth) → sich beeilen(, etw zu tun)

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haste [heɪst] n → fretta