| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h st |
| NOUN: | 1. Rapidity of action or motion. 2. Overeagerness to act. 3. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness. | | INTRANSITIVE & TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: hast·ed, hast·ing, hastes
To hasten or cause to hasten. | | IDIOM: | make haste To move or act swiftly; hurry. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin. | | SYNONYMS: | haste, celerity, dispatch, expedition, hurry, speed These nouns denote rapidity or promptness of movement or activity: left the room in haste; a legal system not known for celerity; advanced with all possible dispatch; cleaned up with remarkable expedition; worked without hurry; driving with excessive speed. | | ANTONYM: | deliberation
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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