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Webster 1913 Edition

Haste

Haste

(hāst)
,
Noun.
[OE.
hast
; akin to D.
haast
, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries.
hast
, cf. OF.
haste
, F.
hâte
(of German origin); all perh. fr. the root of E.
hate
in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See
Hate
.]
1.
Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; – applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
The king’s business required
haste
.
1 Sam. xxi. 8.
2.
The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my
haste
, All men are liars.
Ps. cxvi. 11.
Syn. – Speed; quickness; nimbleness; swiftness; expedition; dispatch; hurry; precipitance; vehemence; precipitation.
–
Haste
,
Hurry
,
Speed
,
Dispatch
. Haste denotes quickness of action and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes a confusion and want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed denotes the actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude and rapidity with which things are done. A man may properly be in haste, but never in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.

Haste

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hasted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hasting
.]
[OE.
hasten
; akin to G.
hasten
, D.
haasten
, Dan.
haste
, Sw.
hasta
, OF.
haster
, F.
hâter
. See
Haste
,
Noun.
]
To hasten; to hurry.
[Archaic]
I 'll
haste
the writer.
Shakespeare
They were troubled and
hasted
away.
Ps. xlviii. 5.

Webster 1828 Edition

Haste

HASTE

, n.
1.
Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals; never to other bodies. We never say, a ball flies with haste.
The king's business required haste. l Sam.21.
2.
Sudden excitement of passion; quickness; precipitance; vehemence.
I said in my haste, all men are liars. Ps.116.
3.
The state of being urged or pressed by business; as, I am in great haste.

HASTE

Definition 2024

haste

haste

English

„Haste“ or „the biologic relativity of time“

Noun

haste ‎(uncountable)

  1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
    • Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
      The king's business required haste.
  2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
    • Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
      I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

haste ‎(third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)

  1. (transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
  2. (intransitive) To move with haste.
    • 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition):
      The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
    • 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:
      He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
    • 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present:
      Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Etymology at merriam-webster.com
  2. ↑ Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 524

Anagrams

Esperanto

Adverb

haste

  1. hastily

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhastə]
  • Hyphenation: has‧te
  • Homophone: hasste

Verb

haste

  1. First-person singular present of hasten.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of hasten.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of hasten.
  4. Imperative singular of hasten.
  5. Contraction of hast du

Portuguese

Etymology

From hasta.

Pronunciation

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

  1. pole
  2. (botany) stem, stalk

Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten ‎(verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta ‎(“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast ‎(“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (French: hâte)[1], from Old Frankish *haist, *haifst ‎(“violence”) [2], from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz ‎(“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱēybʰ- ‎(“fast, snell, fierce”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste ‎(“haste”), Old English hǣst ‎(“violence”), Old English hǣste ‎(“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt ‎(“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 ‎(haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig ‎(“vehement”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /heɪst/
  • Rhymes: -eɪst

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