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precipitance
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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, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Main Entry: | precipitateness |
| 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: | rapidness |
| 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, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, speed, speediness, 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 |
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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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| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bent upon, content, cordial, corrigible, disposed, docile, eager, earnest, easily persuaded, easy, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, favorably minded, forward, genial, gracious, gratuitous, hearty, in the humor, in the mind, in the mood, in the vein, inclined, minded, nothing loth, persuadable, persuasible, predisposed, propense, ready, spontaneous, suasible, tractable, unasked, unforced, voluntary, willing
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| Concept: | Haste. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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-nouns
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.
-phrases
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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