Usually means: Rushing quickly, often causing errors.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. haste: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. haste: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haste: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. haste: Collins English Dictionary
  5. haste: Vocabulary.com
  6. Haste, haste: Wordnik
  7. haste: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. haste: Wiktionary
  9. haste: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. haste: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. haste: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Haste, haste: Dictionary.com
  13. haste (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. haste: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Haste (album), Haste: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Haste: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. haste: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. haste: Rhymezone
  19. haste: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. haste: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. haste: Free Dictionary
  22. haste: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. haste: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. haste: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Haste: Literary Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haste: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haste: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HASTE: Acronym Finder
  2. haste: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haste: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.
▸ noun:  A surname from Old French.

Similar:
hurry, rushing, hastiness, hurriedness, posthaste, hying, hairswidth, heedance, hussle, hurdle, more...

Opposite:
deliberation, slowness, leisure, patience, calmness

Types:
rush, hurry, scurry, dash, sprint, scramble, gallop, whirlwind, more...

Phrases:
in haste, make haste, made haste, post haste, making haste, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, hot, post, much, undue, feverish, indecent, possible, unseemly, eager

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Similar:
hurry, rushing, hastiness, hurriedness, posthaste, hying, hairswidth, heedance, hussle, hurdle, more...

Opposite:
deliberation, slowness, leisure, patience, calmness

Types:
rush, hurry, scurry, dash, sprint, scramble, gallop, whirlwind, more...

Phrases:
in haste, make haste, made haste, post haste, making haste, makes haste, haste makes waste, marry in haste repent at leisure, repent at leisure marry in haste, to make haste, make haste slowly, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, hot, post, much, undue, feverish, indecent, possible, unseemly, eager

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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