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More words related to hastily

crazily
adv. furiously
  • hastily
  • insanely
  • irrationally
  • madly
  • maniacally
  • psychotically
  • rabidly
  • rashly
  • ravingly
  • wildly
  • witlessly

headfirst
adv. recklessly
  • carelessly
  • hastily
  • rashly

impulsively
adv. imprudently
  • carelessly
  • foolishly
  • hastily
  • impetuously
  • rashly

helter-skelter
adj. with undue hurry and confusion
  • arbitrary
  • carelessly
  • chaotic
  • confused
  • disorderly
  • haphazard
  • hastily
  • hit or miss
  • hurried
  • hurry-scurry
  • in disorder
  • random
  • recklessly
  • slapdash

swiftly
adv. very fast
  • apace
  • double-quick
  • expeditiously
  • flat-out
  • fleetly
  • full tilt
  • hastily
  • hotfoot
  • hurriedly
  • posthaste
  • promptly
  • quick
  • quickly
  • rapidly
  • speedily
  • swift
  • without warning

rashly
adv. brashly
  • abruptly
  • boldly
  • carelessly
  • daringly
  • excitedly
  • expeditiously
  • feverishly
  • fiercely
  • foolishly
  • frantically
  • furiously
  • hastily
  • headily
  • headlong
  • headstrongly
  • heedlessly
  • hurriedly
  • ill-advisedly
  • impetuously
  • imprudently
  • impulsively
  • inadvisedly
  • incautiously
  • indiscreetly
  • indomitably
  • irresponsibly
  • madly
  • passionately
  • precipitantly
  • precipitately
  • precipitously
  • recklessly
  • speedily
  • thoughtlessly
  • unpreparedly
  • unthinkingly
  • unwarily
  • unwisely
  • wildly

speedily
adv. rapidly
  • abruptly
  • directly
  • fast
  • hastily
  • hurriedly
  • instantaneously
  • promptly
  • quickly

urgently
adv. insistently
  • anxious
  • beseechingly
  • compellingly
  • eagerly
  • earnestly
  • emotionally
  • enthusiastically
  • excitedly
  • frantically
  • gravely
  • hastily
  • imperiously
  • impetuously
  • imploringly
  • importunately
  • persuasively
  • precipitately
  • vigorously
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Word Origin & History

hasty mid-14c., "speedy, quick," from O.Fr. hasti, hastif (Mod.Fr. hâtif), from haste (Mod.Fr. hâte); see haste. Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (the sense in hasty pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "rash" is from early 15c.

Example Sentences for hastily

She did not allow him to finish; she said hastily that she must witness the contest.

We must not too hastily conclude that this is to be the issue in our case.

She walked after him, and when he turned round to look at her, she hastily looked the other way.

Then, with a sigh of relief, she closed the door on them and hastily fled from the room.

It is enough to say here that the view Cooper took was not hastily formed, nor was it the result of accidental prejudices.

Neither of the above assumptions, however, can be hastily permitted.

None but light and inconsiderate minds,’ continues the good friar, ‘do hastily reject the marvellous.

"I cannot tell you," replied Madeleine, hastily refolding the letter.

Seizing the opportunity, he had hastily divested himself of his own boot and had added that to the page's burden.

Hastily collecting their spoil, the raiders looked about for their horses.

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