Definition of haste

"haste" in the noun sense

1. haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation

overly eager speed (and possible carelessness

"he soon regretted his haste"

2. haste, hurry, rush, rushing

the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

"in his haste to leave he forgot his book"

3. hurry, haste

a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

"in a hurry to lock the door"

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Quotations for haste

Hasten slowly. [ Augustus Caesar ]

Make haste slowly. [ Proverb ]

Haste makes waste. [ Constantine III ]

Haste with leisure. [ German Proverb ]

Haste not, rest not. [ Motto on Goethe's ring ]

Haste comes not alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fool's haste is no speed. [ Proverb ]

Error is always in haste. [ Proverb ]

Haste is always ungraceful. [ Lady Blessington ]

All haste implies weakness. [ George MacDonald ]

Haste trips up its own heels. [ Proverb ]

Great haste makes great waste. [ Ben. Franklin ]

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent. [ William Shakespeare ]

Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

The more haste, the worse speed. [ Proverb ]

Reckless haste makes poor speed. [ Franklin ]

Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

Hastiness is improvident and blind. [ Livy ]

Error is ever the sequence of haste. [ Wellington ]

Fraud and deceit are always in haste. [ Proverb ]

The more haste, ever the worst speed. [ Churchill ]

Haste is needful in a desperate case. [ William Shakespeare ]

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Make not too much haste on a journey. [ Chilo ]

Precipitate haste leads to injustice. [ Euripides ]

Haste thee. Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity.
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles.
Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. [ Milton ]

Marry in haste, and repent at leisure,
It is good to marry late or never. [ Proverb ]

Married in haste, we repent at leisure. [ Congreve ]

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that believeth shall not make haste. [ Bible ]

He who decides in haste repents in haste. [ Publius Syrus ]

Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. [ J. Wesley ]

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. [ Haliburton ]

Rashness and haste make all things insecure. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast. [ Shakespeare ]

Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war.
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream:
And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,
Such as we see when men restrain their breath
On some great sudden haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]

He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. [ Byron ]

Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty. [ William Shakespeare ]

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]

Modern wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. [ Metastasio ]

Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. [ Proverb ]

Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]

Unreasonable haste is often the direct road to error. [ Moliere ]

Make haste to an ill way, that you may get out of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. [ Seneca ]

Deceit is in haste, but honesty can stay a fair leisure. [ Proverb ]

Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late. [ Bovee ]

He who decides hastily, will soon repent of his decision. [ Publius Syrus ]

Manners require time, as nothing is more vulgar than haste. [ Emerson ]

It is of no use running, to set out betimes is the main point. [ La Fontaine ]

Who hath no haste in his business, mountains to him seem valleys. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The more haste we make in a wrong way, the further we are from our journey's end. [ Proverb ]

Truth is strengthened by observation and time, pretences by haste and uncertainty. [ Tacitus ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste. [ Solon ]

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]

Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Coolness, and absence of heat and haste, indicate fine qualities. A gentleman makes no noise, a lady is serene. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Haste me to know it; that I with wings as swift as meditation, or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him? [ Tillotson ]

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]

Sir Amyas Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, Stay awhile, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful. [ George MacDonald ]

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

When men neglect God, they neglect their own safety; they procure their own ruin; they fly from their own happiness; they pursue their own misery, and make haste to be undone. [ J. Mair ]

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]

Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. [ Bovee ]

It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved. [ George Sand ]

haste in Scrabble®

The word haste is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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haste in Words With Friends™

The word haste is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence haste

Words that start with haste (7 words)

Words that end with haste (4 words)

Word Growth involving haste

Shorter words in haste

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Longer words containing haste

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