All hurried synonyms
hurΒ·ried
H h adj hurried
- quick β done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- hasty β moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
- cursory β A cursory glance or examination is a brief one in which you do not pay much attention to detail.
- precipitous β of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- sudden β happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly: a sudden attack.
- speedy β characterized by speed; rapid; swift; fast.
- hectic β characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.
- abrupt β An abrupt change or action is very sudden, often in a way which is unpleasant.
- headlong β with the head foremost; headfirst: to plunge headlong into the water.
- precipitate β to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- short β having little length; not long.
- rushing β the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- fast β moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- brief β Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
- breakneck β If you say that something happens or travels at breakneck speed, you mean that it happens or travels very fast.
- impetuous β of, relating to, or characterized by sudden or rash action, emotion, etc.; impulsive: an impetuous decision; an impetuous person.
- perfunctory β performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- slapdash β in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- superficial β being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- swift β moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- precipitant β falling headlong.
adjective hurried
- rushed β to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
- spur-of-the-moment β occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
- snatched β to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- hassled β a disorderly dispute.
- pressurized β brought to and maintained at an atmospheric pressure higher than that of the surroundings: cooking with pressurized steam.
- harried β to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry: He was harried by constant doubts.
adverb hurried
- make it snappy β apt to snap or bite; snappish, as a dog.
- hurriedly β moving or working rapidly, especially forced or required to hurry, as a person.
- expeditiously β In an expeditious manner.
- like a shot β a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- chop-chop β with haste; quickly.
- double-time β to cause to move in double time: Double-time the troops to the mess hall.
- in high gear β Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- fleetly β swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse.
- chop chop β pidgin English for quickly
- on the double β twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
- full tilt β at the full potential, speed, energy, forcefulness, etc.