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Hasty is a related term of posthaste.


As an adjective hasty

is acting in haste; being too hurried or quick (eg without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it ).

As an adverb posthaste is

quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.

As a noun posthaste is

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hasty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. )
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    • Derived terms

    * hastily * hastiness * overhasty

    Related terms

    * haste * hasten * hasteful * hurried

    Anagrams

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    posthaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * post-haste, post haste

    Adverb

    (-)
  • quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed
    • It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste .
  • * 1946 — , Ch. 17
    • "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

    Synonyms

    * (quickly) ASAP, quickly * See also

    Noun

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  • * 1602 : , act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
    • ''"And this, I take it,
    ''Is the main motive of our preparations
    ''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
    Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
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