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haste

noun
/heɪst/

Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian hāst, hāste (“haste”), Old English hǣst (“violence”), Old English hǣste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adjective), Old Norse heift /heipt (“feud”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃𐍄𐍃 (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German heftig (“vehement”) and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

  1. derived from *ḱeyp-✻
  2. inherited from *haifstiz✻
  3. derived from *haifsti✻ — “violence”
  4. derived from haste
  5. inherited from hast
  6. inherited from hasten

Definitions

  1. Speed

    Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
    • The king's business required haste.
    • There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.

  2. Urgency

    Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

    • I said in my haste, All men are liars.

  3. To urge onward

    To urge onward; to hasten.

    • Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To move with haste.

      • The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
      • He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.
      • Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

    2. A surname from Old French.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at haste. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01haste02dispatch03hastily04hurriedly05hurried06hurry07rush

A definitional loop anchored at haste. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at haste

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA