haste
/icons/point.icon HASTE, HURRY, SPEED, EXPEDITION, DISPATCH mean quickness in movement or action.
HASTE applies to personal action and implies urgency and precipitancy and often rashness.
e.g. marry in haste
HURRY often has a strong suggestion of agitated bustle or confusion.
e.g. in the hurry of departure she forgot her toothbrush
SPEED suggests swift efficiency in movement or action.
e.g. exercises to increase your reading speed
EXPEDITION and DISPATCH both imply speed and efficiency in handling affairs but EXPEDITION stresses ease or efficiency of performance and DISPATCH stresses promptness in concluding matters.
e.g. the case came to trial with expedition
e.g. paid bills with dispatch
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noun
excessive speed or urgency of movement or action; hurry:
迅速, 急ぎ(rush, ｟よりくだけて｠ hurry) (!目的を持って急ぐこと)
e.g. working with feverish haste
あわてること, 性急, 軽率
e.g. I write in haste.
in haste: 急いで; あわてて(hastily, in a hurry)
verb
archaic term for hasten.
PHRASES
make haste
hurry; hasten:
｟古｠ «…するのを» 急ぐ(hurry) «to do» .
e.g. I make haste to seal this.
more haste, less speed
proverb you make better progress with a task if you don't try to do it too quickly.
〘英･ことわざ〙 急ぐほどゆっくり;
「急がば回れ」
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Old French haste (noun), haster (verb), of Germanic origin.