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haste
noun as in extreme speed, hurry
Strong matches
- briskness
- bustle
- carelessness
- celerity
- dash
- dispatch
- drive
- expedition
- expeditiousness
- fleetness
- flurry
- foolhardiness
- hastiness
- heedlessness
- hurriedness
- hustle
- impatience
- impetuosity
- incautiousness
- nimbleness
- pace
- precipitancy
- precipitateness
- prematureness
- press
- promptitude
- promptness
- quickness
- rapidity
- rapidness
- rashness
- recklessness
- rush
- scamper
- scramble
- scurry
- scuttle
- swiftness
- velocity
Weak matches
Example Sentences
A coat hanging on a wall hook turns out to be one that was left there in haste, with notes between distant lovers still residing in the pockets.
She sent a letter Monday to the Homeland Security secretary and head of the Coast Guard asking to implement change “with all possible haste.”
Peter Gautier, in a July letter to the NTSB, wrote that it had been “dilgently working” on a notice of a proposed rule making with “all due haste” on safety management systems.
In a report, the ISB said the support scheme appeared to have been “set up in haste, underthought and under-resourced”.
She hasn’t ruled out a future run for statewide office — Porter could be a formidable candidate for attorney general or governor — but feels no haste to decide.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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