Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Haste

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