excessive haste

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• haste — ► NOUN ▪ excessive speed or urgency of action. ● more haste, less speed Cf. ↑more haste, less speed ORIGIN Old French …   English terms dictionary

• haste — n. & v. n. 1 urgency of movement or action. 2 excessive hurry. v.intr. archaic = HASTEN. Phrases and idioms: in haste quickly, hurriedly. make haste hurry; be quick. Etymology: ME f. OF haste, haster f. WG …   Useful english dictionary

• haste — noun excessive speed or urgency of action. verb archaic term for hasten. Phrases make haste dated hurry; hasten. Origin ME: from OFr. haste (n.), haster (v.), of Gmc origin …   English new terms dictionary

• overhaste — n. excessive haste. Derivatives: overhasty adj. overhastily adv. * * * | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: Middle English overhast, from over (III) + hast, haste haste : excessive haste * * * overhasteˈ (↑haste) n(5) • • • …   Useful english dictionary

• Futurism (literature) — Futurism as a literary movement made its official debut with F.T. Marinetti s Manifesto of Futurism (1909), as it delineated the various ideals Futurist poetry should strive for. Poetry, the predominant medium of Futurist literature, can be… …   Wikipedia

• snap judgment — noun a) A decision made without deliberation or in excessive haste. b) Making decisions without deliberation or in excessive haste …   Wiktionary

• precipitate — adj Precipitate, headlong, abrupt, impetuous, hasty, sudden as applied to persons or their acts or be havior denote characterized by excessive haste and unexpectedness. Precipitate especially stresses lack of due deliberation; sometimes it… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• precipitancy — noun Suddenness; excessive haste. Though this involuntary falsehood may frequently be no mark of any want of veracity, of any want of the most perfect love of truth, it is always in some degree a mark of want of judgment, of want of memory, of… …   Wiktionary

• hâte — 1. hâte [ at ] ou haste [ ast ] n. f. • 1636, XIIe ; crois. entre lat. hasta (→ hast) et germ. harsta « gril » ♦ Vx Broche à rôtir; viande rôtie. ⇒ hâtelet; et aussi hâtier. ⊗ HOM. Hast. hâte 2. hâte [ at ] n. f. • …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• rush — rush1 rushingly, adv. /rush/, v.i. 1. to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence. 2. to dash, esp. to dash forward for an attack or onslaught. 3. to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly: The blood rushed to his face. 4 …   Universalium

• rush — I [[t]rʌʃ[/t]] v. i. 1) to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence 2) to dash forward, as for an attack 3) to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly 4) spo to carry the football on a running play 5) to perform, accomplish …   From formal English to slang