Thesaurus / post-haste
other words for post-haste
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- abrupt
- active
- agile
- brief
- brisk
- cursory
- energetic
- expeditious
- hasty
- hurried
- immediate
- instantaneous
- keen
- nimble
- rapid
- sudden
- swift
- alert
- express
- fleet
- flying
- going
- prompt
- ASAP
- a move on
- accelerated
- animated
- breakneck
- curt
- double time
- expeditive
- harefooted
- headlong
- impatient
- impetuous
- lively
- mercurial
- move it
- on the double
- perfunctory
- posthaste
- pronto
- snappy
- spirited
- sprightly
- spry
- the lead out
- winged
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antonyms of post-haste
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN
If Mac had been alone he would have made the post by sundown, for the Mounted Police rode picked horses, the best money could buy.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
The Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Harry had no further adventures in reaching Fulton, and at once reported to Captain Duffield, who was in command of the post.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNN
Here there is no question of emergency, or enemy pressure, or of haste; so much we see plain enough with our own eyes.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
This, of course, I always gave to the guide to use in sending the letter when he got to the trading-post.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN
The startled operators at Umballa could obtain no further intelligence and the boy was slain at his post.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY