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haste

/heɪst/noun1 syllable

Haste means: overly eager speed (and possible carelessness).

Synonyms for haste6

noun, as in overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)

hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation

noun, as in the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

hurry, rush, rushing

noun, as in a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

hurry

What does haste mean?3

noun

1

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)“he soon regretted his haste”

2

the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner“in his haste to leave he forgot his book”

3

a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry“in a hurry to lock the door”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with haste?22

two syllables

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Haste in a sentence

  • Make haste, and you will be in time.Yeti
  • Having been written in haste, his letter was hard to read.fishda
  • Having been written in haste, the book has a lot of errors.CK
  • As it was written in haste, the book has many faults.fishda
  • As it had been written in haste, the report was poor.fishda
  • As it was printed in haste, the book has many misprints.fishda
  • I wrote the composition in haste, so it must be full of mistakes.unknown
  • This textbook, having been printed in haste, has a lot of printing mistakes.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of haste

as a noun

plural
hastes