| NOUN | attribute | haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation | overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) |
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| act | haste, hurry, rush, rushing | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | |
| state | haste, hurry | a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry |
| Sounds | hhey'st | |
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| Rhymes | aftertaste ... waste: 25 rhymes with eyst... | |
| Meaning | overly eager speed (and possible carelessness). | |
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| Example | "he soon regretted his haste" | |
| Synonyms | hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation | |
| Narrower | abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness | The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning |
| Broader | speed, swiftness, fastness | A rate (usually rapid) at which something happens |
| Catalan | pressa | |
| Spanish | prisa | |
| Adjectives | hasty | excessively quick |
| hasty | done with very great haste and without due deliberation | |
| Meaning | The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner. | |
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| Example | "in his haste to leave he forgot his book" | |
| Synonyms | hurry, rush, rushing | |
| Narrower | dash, bolt | The act of moving with great haste |
| scamper, scramble, scurry | rushing about hastily in an undignified way | |
| Broader | motion, movement, move | The act of changing location from one place to another |
| Catalan | precipitació, pressa, urgència | |
| Spanish | precipitación, prisa, urgencia | |
| Meaning | A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry. | |
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| Synonym | hurry | |
| Broader | urgency | The state of being urgent |
| Catalan | pressa | |
| Spanish | apuro, prisa | |