haste

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

haste [haste hastes hasted hasting] BrE [heɪst] NAmE [heɪst] noun uncountable (formal)
speed in doing sth, especially because you do not have enough time
Syn: ↑hurry
•In her haste to complete the work on time, she made a number of mistakes.
•The letter had clearly been written in haste.
•After his first wife died, he married again with almost indecent haste.
•Why all the haste?
• (old-fashioned)She made haste to open the door.
more at marry in haste (, repent at leisure) at ↑marry
Idiom: ↑more haste, less speed

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French haste (noun), haster (verb), of Germanic origin.

Example Bank:
•He married again with almost indecent haste.
•I had to make haste if I wasn't to be late.
•In his haste to get home, he forgot to go to the library.
•She worked with frantic haste.
•The ships were ordered to sea with all haste.
•They approached without haste.
•They obviously left in great haste.
•In her haste to finish on time she made a number of mistakes.
•The letter had clearly been written in haste.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hurry, rush, rushing, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation