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precipitateness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | haste |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly, hurriedness, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Main Entry: | speediness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | haste |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly, hurriedness, hurry, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitancy, precipitateness, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, speed, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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afflated, agacant, agonizing, appetizing, astir, boiling, boisterous, burning, chafing, clamorous, delirious, demoniac, demoniacal, demonstrative, distracted, ebullient, effervescent, electric, entheal, enthusiastic, estuous, excitable, excited, exciting, fanatical, febrile, fervid, feverish, fidgety, fidgin, fiery, fisselig, flaming, flushed, foaming, fuming, furious, fussy, glowing, gomphipothic, haggard, hasty, hot, hurried, hurry, impassioned, impatient, impetuous, imposing, impulsive, inextinguishable, intolerant, irrepressible, irritable, kedge, lost, mad, madcap, magazinish, mercurial, mettlesome, moody, overpowering, overwhelming, passionate, piquant, provocative, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, restless, rouncy, seething, sensational, simmering, sirenic, skittish, sparkling, spicy, stanchless, startlish, swelling, tantalizing, telling, tempestuous, thrilling, tumultuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unquiet, unroarious, up, vehement, violent, volcanic, warm, wild
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| Main Entry: | hurry |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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boisterous, booming, breathless, brusque, cursory, festinate, feverish, furious, fussy, hard, headlong, hot, impelled, impelling, impetuous, impulsive, in a hurry, in all haste, in haste, in hot haste, partito in quarta, precipitate, precipitous, preproperous, pressed for time, pushing, rudderish, saccadic, scrambling, spoffish, umbeer, urgent
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| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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-nouns
action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).
-verbs
do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).
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doing; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in operation.
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in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.
-phrases
"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
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| Antonyms: | inaction |
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| Concept: | Haste. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitiousness; impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
-verbs
haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush (violence); express., bestir oneself (be active); 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; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry; have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time., quicken; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.
-adjectives
hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing., in haste, in a hurry; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.
-adverbs
with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste; apace (swiftly); amain; all at once (instantaneously); at short notice, immediately (early) [more]; posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches., hastily, precipitately; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu., by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.
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sauve qui peut, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done (early); a word and a blow; maggire fretta minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German] [Goethe's motto]; "stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
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| Antonyms: | leisure |
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| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
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. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
-verbs
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
-adjectives
blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary.
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"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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| Concept: | Excitation. |
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excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, pertubation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment; entrancement, high pressure., unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli; irritation (anger); passion (state of excitability); thrill (feeling); repression of feeling; sensationalism, yellow journalism.
-verbs
excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame., stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle., fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up., stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul., absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser, upset, turn one's head., fascinate; enrapture (give pleasure)., agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify., irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury (wrath)., be excited; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad (passion).
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excited; wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; overwrought; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes., flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal., lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.
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till one is black in the face.
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the heart beating high, the heart going pitapat, the heart leaping into one's mouth; the blood being up, the blood boiling in one's veins; the eye glistening, "in a fine frenzy
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