Haste
Nouns
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haste, urgency
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despatch, dispatch
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acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash
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speed, velocity etc. Velocity
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precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness etc. adj.
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impetuosity
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brusquerie
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hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
Verbs
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haste, hasten
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make haste, make a dash etc. n.
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hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward
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hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble
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plunge, plunge headlong
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dash off
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rush etc. (violence) Violence
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express. bestir oneself etc. (be active) Activity
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lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant
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make short work of
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make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way. be precipitate etc. adj.
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jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry etc. n.
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have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare
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work against time. quicken etc. Velocity
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accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip
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railroad.
Adjectives
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hasty, hurried, brusque
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scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded
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feverish, fussy
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pushing. in haste, in a hurry etc. n.
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in hot haste, in all haste
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breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.
Adverbs
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with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed
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in haste etc. adj.
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apace etc. (swiftly) Velocity
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amain
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all at once etc. (instantaneously) [Point of time] Instantaneity
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at short notice etc.
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immediately etc. (early) Earliness
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posthaste
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by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches. hastily, precipitately etc. adj.
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helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus
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slapdash, slap-bang
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full-tilt, full drive
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heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, by spurts
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hop skip and jump.
Phrases
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[panic] sauve qui peut [Fr.], every man for himself [Fr.Tr.], devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost
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no sooner said than done etc. (early) Earliness
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a word and a blow
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haste makes waste
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[Goethe's motto]
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stand not upon the order of your going but go at stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]
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swift, swift, you dragons of the night" [Cymbeline].