Dictionary

hastily en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ˈheɪstɪli/

Etymology

Etymology tree English hasty Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English hastily From hasty + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
   • Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.] 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:
   • The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him. 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
   • The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
2. (obsolete) Soon, shortly.
   • she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

overhastily

Translations (40)

es de prisa (in a hasty manner) · cmn 迅速地 (in a hasty manner) · ro prompt (in a hasty manner) · cmn 趕緊 /赶紧 (in a hasty manner) · wa raddimint (in a hasty manner) · eo haste (in a hasty manner) · la properē (in a hasty manner) · cmn 快速地 (in a hasty manner) · de hastig (in a hasty manner) · pl pospiesznie (in a hasty manner) · es atropelladamente (in a hasty manner) · pl naprędce (in a hasty manner) · tr aceleyle (in a hasty manner) · pl pośpiesznie (in a hasty manner) · ru торопли́во (in a hasty manner) · it precipitatamente (in a hasty manner) · ja 急いで (in a hasty manner) · fa شتابان (in a hasty manner) · cmn 急忙 (in a hasty manner) · fi kiireesti (in a hasty manner) · ru поспе́шно (in a hasty manner) · ko 급히 (in a hasty manner) · mi patiko (in a hasty manner) · ko 황급히 (in a hasty manner) · az tələsik (in a hasty manner) · bg прибързано (in a hasty manner) · wa al varade (in a hasty manner) · fr à la hâte (in a hasty manner) · az tez-tələsik (in a hasty manner) · it frettolosamente (in a hasty manner) · es apresuradamente (in a hasty manner) · cmn 急速地 (in a hasty manner) · az tələsik-tələsik (in a hasty manner) · ja 急に (in a hasty manner) · cmn 趕快地 /赶快地 (in a hasty manner) · fr hâtivement (in a hasty manner) · bn জলদি (in a hasty manner) · grc κραιπνῶς (in a hasty manner) · pt apressadamente (in a hasty manner) · fr précipitamment (in a hasty manner)