haste
[ heyst ]
/ heɪst /
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
urgent need of quick action; a hurry or rush: to be in haste to get ahead in the world.
unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed: Haste makes waste.
verb (used with or without object), hast·ed, hast·ing.
Archaic.
to hasten.
Idioms for haste
make haste,
to act or go with speed; hurry: She made haste to tell the president the good news.
Origin of haste
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Germanic; akin to Old Frisian
hāste, Old English
hæst violence, Old Norse
heifst hatred, Gothic
haifsts quarrel
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British Dictionary definitions for make haste
haste
/ (heɪst) /
noun
speed, esp in an action; swiftness; rapidity
the act of hurrying in a careless or rash manner
a necessity for hurrying; urgency
make haste
to hurry; rush
verb
a poetic word for hasten
Derived forms of haste
hasteful, adjective hastefully, adverbWord Origin for haste
C14: from Old French
haste, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse
heifst hate, Old English
hǣst strife, Old High German
heisti powerful
Idioms and Phrases with make haste (1 of 2)
make haste
Also, make it snappy. Hurry up, move or act quickly, as in If you don't make haste we'll be late, or Make it snappy, kids. The first expression was first recorded in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Psalms 39:13): “Make haste, O Lord, to help me.” The variant dates from the early 1900s and uses snappy in the sense of “resembling a sudden jerk.” The oxymoron make haste slowly, dating from the mid-1700s, is a translation of the Latin festina lente. It is used either ironically, to slow someone down (as in You'll do better if you make haste slowly), or to comment sarcastically on a lack of progress (as in So far the committee has been making haste slowly).
Idioms and Phrases with make haste (2 of 2)
haste