What does haste mean?
Definitions for haste
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Princeton's WordNet
haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitationnoun
overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
"he soon regretted his haste"
haste, hurry, rush, rushingnoun
the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
"in his haste to leave he forgot his book"
hurry, hastenoun
a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
"in a hurry to lock the door"
Wiktionary
hastenoun
A speedy or quick action. (e.g. We were running late so we finished our meal in haste)
hasteverb
To urge onward; to hasten
hasteverb
To move with haste.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HASTEnoun
Etymology: haste, French; haeste, Dutch.
Spare him, death!
Let not pity with her tears
Keep such distance from thine ears:
But O, thou wilt not, canst not spare!
Haste hath never time to hear. Richard Crashaw.Our lines reform’d, and not compos’d in haste,
Polish’d like marble, would like marble last;
But as the present, so the last age writ;
In both we find like negligence and wit. Edmund Waller.In as much haste as I am, I cannot forbear giving an example. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.
The wretched father, running to their aid
With pious haste, but vain, they next invade. Dryden.I said in my haste, all men are liars. Ps. cxvi. II.
To Haste, To Hastenverb
To push forward; to urge on; to precipitate; to drive to a swifter pace.
Let it be so hasted, that supper be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
All hopes of succour from your arms is past;
To save us now, you must our ruin haste. Dryden.Each sees his lamp with diff’rent lustre crown’d;
Each knows his course with diff’rent periods bound;
And in his passage through the liquid space,
Nor hastens, nor retards his neighbour’s race. Matthew Prior.To Haste, To Hastenverb
Etymology: haster, French; haesten, Dutch.
I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee. Jer.
’Tis Cinna, I do know him by his gait;
He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so? William Shakespeare.They were troubled and hasted away. Ps. xlviii. 5.
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by. Wisd. v. 9.
Hasting to pay his tribute to the sea,
Like mortal life to meet eternity. John Denham.These rites perform’d, the prince, without delay,
Hastes to the nether world, his destin’d way. John Dryden, Æn.To distant Sparta, and the spacious waste
Of sandy Pyle, the royal youth shall haste. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.Soon as the sun awakes the sprightly court,
Leave their repose, and hasten to the sport. Matthew Prior.
ChatGPT
haste
Haste refers to excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurriedness. It often implies carelessness or rashness.
Webster Dictionary
Hastenoun
celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals
Hastenoun
the state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence
Hastenoun
to hasten; to hurry
Etymology: [OE. hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw. hasta, OF. haster, F. hter. See Haste, n.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Haste
hāst, n. speed, quickness, a hurry: rashness: vehemence.—vs.t. Haste, Hasten (hās′n), to put to speed: to hurry on: to drive forward.—vs.i. to move with speed: to be in a hurry:—pr.p. hāst′ing, hastening (hās′ning); pa.p. hāst′ed, hastened (hās′nd).—n. Hast′ener.—adv. Hast′ily.—n. Hast′iness, hurry: rashness: irritability.—adj. Hast′y, speedy: quick: rash: eager: passionate.—n. Hast′y-pudd′ing, flour, milk, or oatmeal and water porridge.—adj. Hast′y-wit′ted, rash.—Make haste, to hasten. [O. Fr. haste (Fr. hâte), from Teut.; cf. A.S. hǽst, Dut. haast, Ger. hast.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HASTE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Haste is ranked #35489 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Haste surname appeared 634 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Haste.
92.1% or 584 total occurrences were White.
3.9% or 25 total occurrences were Black.
1.7% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
Anagrams for haste »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of haste in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of haste in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of haste in a Sentence
Haste in every business brings failures.
There was a political imperative on the government to get an agreement and then to go to the electorate with the claim that they had, to coin a phrase, got Brexit done, i think it possibly was the case in some senses that it was `make the agreement in haste and then repent at leisure. And what were seeing now is the repentance.
Web Accessibility simply means that the web is to be made accessible to everyone. And that includes people with special abilities too – an aspect generally overlooked in haste.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
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- تسرعArabic
- pressaCatalan, Valencian
- spěchCzech
- hastværkDanish
- Hast, EileGerman
- hastoEsperanto
- sopetón, prisaSpanish
- عجلهPersian
- kiirettäFinnish
- hâteFrench
- deifirIrish
- deann, cabhagScottish Gaelic
- जल्दीHindi
- sietségHungarian
- bergegasIndonesian
- frettaItalian
- 急いでJapanese
- ಆತುರKannada
- 서두름Korean
- پهلهKurdish
- festinareLatin
- haastDutch
- hastverkNorwegian
- pośpiechPolish
- pressaPortuguese
- grabăRomanian
- спе́шкаRussian
- brådskaSwedish
- அவசரம்Tamil
- తొందరపాటుTelugu
- aceleTurkish
- جلدی کروUrdu
- sự vội vàngVietnamese
- יאָגענישYiddish
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