Thesaurus / post-haste
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synonyms for post-haste
- 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
- split-second
- sprightly
- spry
- the lead out
- winged
- agile
- brisk
- hot
- nimble
- quick
- rapid
- swift
- accelerated
- active
- dashing
- electric
- flashing
- fleet
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- flying
- hurried
- racing
- ready
- snap
- split-second
- winged
- blue streak
- breakneck
- double-time
- expeditious
- expeditive
- hairtrigger
- hasty
- hypersonic
- in a jiffy
- in nothing flat
- lickety split
- like a bat out of hell
- like all get out
- like crazy
- like mad
- on the double
- PDQ
- posthaste
- presto
- pronto
- screamin'
- snappy
- speedball
- supersonic
- velocious
- foolishly
- full tilt
- hastily
- headlong
- heedlessly
- helter-skelter
- impetuously
- incontinently
- indiscreetly
- posthaste
- precipitiously
- rashly
- recklessly
- thoughtlessly
- at once
- breakneck
- directly
- double-quick
- expeditious
- flat-out
- fleet
- fleetly
- full tilt
- hastily
- hasty
- headlong
- lickety-split
- pell-mell
- promptly
- pronto
- quick
- quickly
- rapid
- rapidly
- speedily
- speedy
- straightaway
- swift
- swiftly
- directly
- expeditiously
- hastily
- instantly
- quickly
- rapidly
- speedily
- swiftly
- pronto
- at once
- fast
- flat-out
- fleetly
- in nothing flat
- lickety-split
- like a shot
- now
- on the dot
- on the double
- on time
- PDQ
- posthaste
- punctually
- right away
- sharp
- straightaway
- unhesitatingly
- briskly
- expeditiously
- fast
- immediately
- promptly
- speedily
- swiftly
- at speed
- flat out
- full tilt
- hastily
- hurriedly
- in a hurry
- in a rush
- in haste
- lickety-split
- like a shot
- posthaste
- precipitately
- with dispatch
- directly
- early
- instantly
- promptly
- quickly
- rapidly
- shortly
- speedily
- presently
- anon
- any minute now
- before long
- betimes
- by and by
- coming down the pike
- ere long
- expeditiously
- fast
- fleetly
- forthwith
- hastily
- in a little while
- in a minute
- in a second
- in a short time
- in due time
- in short order
- in time
- lickety-split
- on time
- posthaste
- pronto
- quick
- short
- apace
- double-quick
- expeditiously
- flat-out
- fleetly
- full tilt
- hastily
- hurriedly
- in no time
- posthaste
- promptly
- quick
- quickly
- rapidly
- speedily
- without losing time
- without warning
- expeditiously
- hastily
- promptly
- quickly
- rapidly
- speedily
- fleetly
- apace
- double-quick
- flat-out
- full tilt
- hotfoot
- hurriedly
- posthaste
- quick
- swift
- without warning
- quick
- quickly
- rapidly
- soon
- swift
- swiftly
- apace
- chop-chop
- expeditiously
- flat-out
- fleetly
- full tilt
- hastily
- hurriedly
- in a flash
- in haste
- in nothing flat
- in short order
- like a flash
- like a shot
- like greased lightning
- like wildfire
- posthaste
- presto
- promptly
- pronto
- carelessly
- hurriedly
- nimbly
- prematurely
- promptly
- quickly
- speedily
- suddenly
- swiftly
- agilely
- apace
- double-quick
- expeditiously
- fast
- flat-out
- heedlessly
- impetuously
- impulsively
- lickety-split
- on spur of the moment
- posthaste
- precipitately
- rapidly
- rashly
- recklessly
- straightaway
- subito
- thoughtlessly
- too quickly
- unpremeditatedly
antonyms for post-haste
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use post-haste in a sentence
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 SEAMANIf 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. SINCLAIRThe Café tender was asleep in his chair; the porter had gone off; the sentinel alone kept awake on his post.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYNearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYHarry 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. DUNNHere 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 HAMILTONNews came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThis, 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 SEAMANThe startled operators at Umballa could obtain no further intelligence and the boy was slain at his post.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYHere 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