Meaning | Moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste. |
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Examples | - "a hurried trip to the store"
- "the hurried life of a city"
- "a hurried job"
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Narrower | flying, quick, fast | hurried and brief |
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hasty, headlong | excessively quick |
hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous | done with very great haste and without due deliberation |
helter-skelter, pell-mell | With undue hurry / hurry and confusion |
rush, rushed | Done under pressure |
See also | fast | Acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly |
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Opposite | unhurried | Relaxed and leisurely |
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Spanish | precipitado |
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Catalan | precipitat |
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Nouns | hurriedness | overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) |
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Adverbs | hurriedly | in a hurried or hasty / hasty manner |
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