haste

n.

1. Rapidity

   speed, rapidity, expedition, dispatch, rapidness, hurry, swiftness; see also speed.

2. Undue rapidity

   scramble, bustle, scurry, precipitation, flurry, hurly-burly, impetuosity, rashness, scuttle, impetuousness, foolhardiness, want of caution, untimeliness, hurriedness, scamper, hustling, undue celerity, press, recklessness, rush, hastiness, incautiousness, carelessness, irrationality, rashness, expedience, giddiness, precipitancy, impatience, heedlessness, plunge, unrestraint, vehemence, testiness, rapidity, excitation, fretfulness, outburst, abruptness, anticipation, intempestivity, prematureness, leap in the dark*, speed-up*, speedomania*, smoke*. *

   Antonyms prudence*, caution*, attention. *

3. Urgency

   promptness, promptitude, dispatch; see importance 2.

haste implies quick or precipitate movement or action, as from the pressure of circumstances or intense eagerness; hurry, often interchangeable with haste, specifically suggests excitement, bustle, or confusion the hurry of city life; speed implies rapidity of movement, operation, etc., of persons or things, suggesting effectiveness and the absence of excitement or confusion to increase the speed of an assembly line; expedition adds to speed the implication of efficiency and stresses the facilitation of an action or procedure; dispatch comes close to expedition in meaning but more strongly stresses promptness in finishing something completed the report with dispatch

in haste

make haste