Synonyms: hurried
Definition: moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste
Usage: a hurried trip to the store; the hurried life of a city; a hurried job
Similar words: quick, fast, flying
Definition: hurried and brief
Usage: paid a flying visit; took a flying glance at the book; a quick inspection; a fast visit
Similar words: headlong, hasty
Definition: excessively quick
Usage: made a hasty exit; a headlong rush to sell
Similar words: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous
Definition: done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Usage: hasty marriage seldom proveth well- Shakespeare; hasty makeshifts take the place of planning- Arthur Geddes; rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion; wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
Similar words: pell-mell, helter-skelter
Definition: with undue hurry and confusion
Usage: a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause; a pell-mell dash for the train
Definition: done under pressure
Usage: a rush job