Roget's Thesaurus

#684. Haste

Nouns

haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity etc. 274; 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) 173; express. bestir oneself etc. (be active) 682; 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. 274; 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) 274; amain; all at once etc. (instantaneously) 113; at short notice etc.; immediately etc. (early) 132; 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, a corps perdu [Fr.]. by fits and starts, 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) 132; a word and a blow; haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto [It.]; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [G.] [Goethe's motto]; stand not upon the order of your going but go at once [Macbeth]; swift, swift, you dragons of the night [Cymbeline].