Haste vs Anxious - What's the difference?
haste | anxious |
Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
(obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
* Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
To urge onward; to hasten
To move with haste.
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition=
, passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}
Full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious , despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= Accompanied with, or causing, anxiety; worrying;—applied to things; as, anxious labor.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares.
Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please.
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*:He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform.
As a noun haste
is speed; swiftness; dispatch.As a verb haste
is to urge onward; to hasten.As an adjective anxious is
full of anxiety or disquietude; greatly concerned or solicitous, especially respecting something future or unknown; being in painful suspense;—applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.haste
English
Noun
(-)- We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
- The king's business required haste .
- I said in my haste , All men are liars.
Derived terms
* hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverbVerb
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Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----anxious
English
(Anxiety) (Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* anctious (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}