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Haste vs Brisk - What's the difference?

haste | brisk |

As verbs the difference between haste and brisk

is that haste is to urge onward; to hasten while brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

As a noun haste

is speed; swiftness; dispatch.

As an adjective brisk is

full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

haste

English

Noun

(-)
  • Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
    • The king's business required haste .
  • (obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
    • I said in my haste , All men are liars.

    Derived terms

    * hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverb

    Related terms

    * hurry * rush * scramble * scamper * scurry

    Verb

    (hast)
  • 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}

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    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) ----

    brisk

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute. }}
  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
  • Stimulating or invigorating.
    • This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
  • Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
  • * 1919 ,
    • Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.

    See also

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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