Another word for haste
haste
n.
Rapidity
speed, rapidity, expedition, dispatch, rapidness, hurry, swiftness; see also speed.
Undue rapidity
scramble, bustle, scurry, precipitation, flurry, hurly-burly, impetuosity, rashness, scuttle, impetuousness, foolhardiness, want of caution, untimeliness, hurriedness, scamper, hustling, undue celerity, press, recklessness, rush, hastiness, incautiousness, carelessness, irrationality, rashness, expedience, giddiness, precipitancy, impatience, heedlessness, plunge, unrestraint, vehemence, testiness, rapidity, excitation, fretfulness, outburst, abruptness, anticipation, intempestivity, prematureness, leap in the dark*, speed-up*, speedomania*, smoke*.
Urgency
promptness, promptitude, dispatch; see importance 2.
haste implies quick or precipitate movement or action, as from the pressure of circumstances or intense eagerness; hurry, often interchangeable with haste, specifically suggests excitement, bustle, or confusion the hurry of city life; speed implies rapidity of movement, operation, etc., of persons or things, suggesting effectiveness and the absence of excitement or confusion to increase the speed of an assembly line; expedition adds to speed the implication of efficiency and stresses the facilitation of an action or procedure; dispatch comes close to expedition in meaning but more strongly stresses promptness in finishing something completed the report with dispatch
in hastehastening, in a hurry, moving fast; see hurrying.
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Rapidness of movement or activity:
celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness. See fastCareless headlong action:
hastiness, hurriedness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness, rush. See careful
To move swiftly:
bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. (Informal) hotfoot, rip. (Slang) barrel, highball. (Chiefly British) nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See move
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