haste

1. Rapidity of action or motion.
2. Overeagerness to act.
3. Rash or headlong action; precipitateness.

make haste

1. To move or act swiftly; hurry.

[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

noun

1. Rapidness of movement or activity: celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speed, speediness, swiftness. See fast/slow/velocity.
2. Careless headlong action: hastiness, hurriedness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, rashness, rush. See careful/careless.

verb

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, stepjumpon it. See move/halt.

Idioms beginning with haste:
haste makes waste

In addition to the idiom beginning with haste, also see make haste.

Definition: extreme speed, hurry
Antonyms: delay, leisure, lingering, rest, slowness

Quotes:

"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry." - John Wesley

"Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written." - Charles A. Stoddard

"Make haste slowly." - Latin Proverb

"Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive." - Milarepa

"Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven." - Thomas Fuller

"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." - William J. Durant

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - hast, hastværk, fart
v. intr. - have hastværk, have travlt
v. tr. - haste

idioms:

• make haste    skynde, skynde sig, skynde på

Nederlands (Dutch)
haast, spoed, urgentie, te grote snelheid

Français (French)
n. - hâte
v. intr. - agir à la hâte, se dépêcher
v. tr. - se dépêcher, se hâter

idioms:

• make haste    se dépêcher (de faire)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Eile, Hast
v. - hasten

idioms:

• make haste    sich beeilen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βιασύνη, σπουδή (κν. πρεμούρα)
v. - σπεύδω

idioms:

• make haste    βιάζομαι, βιάσου

Italiano (Italian)
fretta

idioms:

• make haste    affrettarsi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pressa (f), precipitação (f)
v. - apressar

idioms:

• make haste    apressa-te

Русский (Russian)
поспешность, опрометчивость

idioms:

• make haste    поторапливайся!

Español (Spanish)
n. - prisa, precipitación
v. intr. - apresurarse
v. tr. - apresurar, apurar

idioms:

• make haste    darse prisa, apresurarse

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hast
v. - hasta (poet.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
匆忙, 急忙, 赶紧, 催促

idioms:

• make haste    赶快行动

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 匆忙, 急忙
v. intr. - 趕緊, 匆忙
v. tr. - 催促

idioms:

• make haste    趕快行動

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 급함, 서두르기, 신속
v. intr. - 서두르다
v. tr. - ~을 서두르게 하다

idioms:

• make haste    서두르다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 急ぎ, 急速, せくこと, 性急

idioms:

• make haste    急ぐ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عجله, سرعه, تهور, تعجل, اضطراري (فعل) يعجل, يعمل, بعجله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חיפזון, זריזות‬
v. intr. - ‮נחפז‬
v. tr. - ‮מיהר‬

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