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Meaning of 'haste' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Haste [ n.]
- Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
- The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
- To hasten; to hurry.

Meaning of 'haste' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . haste [ n]
Meaning (1):
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
Example in sentence:
  • he soon regretted his haste
Meaning (2):
- a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
Example in sentence:
  • in a hurry to lock the door
Meaning (3):
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
Example in sentence:
  • in his haste to leave he forgot his book

Nearby Words:

has hasard hase hash hashed hasheesh hashing hashish hask haslet

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