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haste en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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 (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    • There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls. 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:
    • The king's business required haste. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 12:8:
    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
    • I said in my haste, All men are liars. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 116:11:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hastes Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

post haste · make haste · hastely · hassle · hastish · hasty · haste makes waste · posthaste · make haste slowly · hastily · hasteful · overhaste · in haste · hasteless · hasten · more haste, less speed · great haste makes great waste · hastiness

Translations (45)

ga dithneas (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · pdt Haust (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · hu sietség (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · es acucia (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ru спе́шка (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · grc σπουδή (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · cs spěch (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · da hast (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · es premura (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · bg бързане (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · es priesa (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ltg skuba (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · izh kippu (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · sv brådska (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · pl pośpiech (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · uk поспіх (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ckb پەلە (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · az tələsiklik (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · la festinatio (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · la concitus (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · fi kiire (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ro grabă (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ca pressa (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · fi hoppu (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ltg strāpuošona (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · gd cabhag (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · pt pressa (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · zlw-opl śpiech (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ltg drystuošona (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · unm shaelìntàmëwakàn (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · es prisa (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · gd deann (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · fr hâte (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · izh kiire (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · es apuro (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · az qaçaqaç (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · de Hast (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · wa håsse (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · la celeritas (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · la festinantia (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · eo hasto (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · la properantia (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · de Eile (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · bg бързина (speed, swiftness, dispatch) · ota عجله (speed, swiftness, dispatch)

haste en · VERB

Pronunciation

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 (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic, transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
    • Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke. c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 168:
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To move with haste.
    • The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. 1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition):
    • Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. 1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present:
    • Waziri’s warriors marched at a rapid trot through the jungle in the direction of the village. For a few minutes, the sharp cracking of guns ahead warned them to haste, but finally the reports dwindled to an occasional shot, presently ceasing altogether. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 133:
    • 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. 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
hastes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
hasted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
hasted Tense=Past lexicographic
hasting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

unhasted · unhasting

Synonyms

scramble (move with haste) · rush (move with haste) · scurry (move with haste) · hurry (move with haste) · scamper (move with haste)