haste

Roget category 684

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.3. Voluntary action
›› 5.3.1. Simple voluntary action

#684. Haste

noun

haste, urgency — despatch, dispatch — acceleration, spurt, spirt^†, forced march, rush, dash — speed, velocity etc. 274 — precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness etc. adj. — impetuosity — brusquerie^† — hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

verb

haste, hasten — make haste, make a dash etc. n. — hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward — hurry, skurry^†, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble — plunge, plunge headlong — dash off — rush etc. (violence) 173 — express.
bestir oneself etc. (be active) 682 — lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant — make short work of — make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way.
be precipitate etc. adj. — jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry etc. n. — have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare — work against time.
quicken etc. 274 — accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip — railroad.

adjective

hasty, hurried, brusque — scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded — feverish, fussy — pushing.
in haste, in a hurry etc. n. — in hot haste, in all haste — breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.

adverb

with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed — in haste etc. adj. — apace etc. (swiftly) 274 — amain^† — all at once etc. (instantaneously) 113 — at short notice &c. — immediately etc. (early) 132 — posthaste — by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.
hastily, precipitately etc. adj. — helter-skelter, hurry-skurry^†, holus-bolus — slapdash, slap-bang — full-tilt, full drive — heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu [Fr.].
by fits and starts, by spurts — hop skip and jump.

phrase

[panic] sauve qui peut [Fr.], every man for himself [Fr.Tr.], devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost — no sooner said than done etc. (early) 132 — a word and a blow — haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto [It] — ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [G.], [Goethe's motto]; stand not upon the order of your going but go at stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; swift, swift, you dragons of the night" [Cymbeline].

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