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- [heyst]
- /heɪst/
- /heɪst/
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- [heyst]
- /heɪst/
Definitions of haste word
- noun haste swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste. 1
- noun haste urgent need of quick action; a hurry or rush: to be in haste to get ahead in the world. 1
- noun haste unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed: Haste makes waste. 1
- idioms haste make haste, to act or go with speed; hurry: She made haste to tell the president the good news. 1
- noun haste Excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry. 1
- noun haste needless speed 1
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Origin of haste
First appearance:
before 1250 One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English < Old French < Germanic; akin to Old Frisian hāste, Old English hæst violence, Old Norse heifst hatred, Gothic haifsts quarrel
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Parts of speech for Haste
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
haste popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for haste
noun haste
- alacrity — If you do something with alacrity, you do it quickly and eagerly.
- urgency — urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.
- dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- dash — If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
verb haste
- lose no time — act without delay
- whish — a whishing sound.
- make time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- bestir — to cause (oneself, or, rarely, another person) to become active; rouse
- make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
Antonyms for haste
noun haste
- calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
- delay — If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- leisure — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.
- slowness — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- lingering — to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
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