hastily

English

Etymology

From hasty +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪstɪli/

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• Hyphenation: hast‧i‧ly

Adverb

hastily (comparative more hastily, superlative most hastily)

1. In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.

   • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:

     The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.

   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:

     Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

2. (obsolete) Soon, shortly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:quickly

Translations

in a hasty manner

Azerbaijani: tələsik (az), tələsik-tələsik, tez-tələsik Bengali: জলদি (bn) (jôldi) Bulgarian: прибързано (bg) (pribǎrzano) Chinese: Mandarin: 迅速地 (zh) (xùnsù de), 快速地 (zh) (kuàisù de), 急速地 (zh) (jísù de), 趕快地／赶快地 (zh) (gǎnkuài de), 急忙 (zh) (jímáng), 趕緊／赶紧 (zh) (gǎnjǐn) Esperanto: haste (eo) Finnish: kiireesti (fi) French: hâtivement (fr), précipitamment (fr), à la hâte (fr) German: hastig (de) Greek: Ancient: κραιπνῶς (kraipnôs) Italian: frettolosamente (it), precipitatamente Japanese: 急いで (ja) (いそいで, isoide), 急に (ja) (きゅうに, kyū ni) Korean: 급히 (ko) (geuphi), 황급히 (hwanggeuphi) Latin: properē Maori: patiko Polish: naprędce (pl), pospiesznie (pl), pośpiesznie (pl) Portuguese: apressadamente (pt) Romanian: prompt (ro) Russian: поспе́шно (ru) (pospéšno), торопли́во (ru) (toroplívo) Spanish: de prisa (es), atropelladamente (es), apresuradamente (es) Turkish: aceleyle Walloon: raddimint (wa), al varade (wa)