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say it: HUR-eed
hurried is an adjective meaning "moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste". It is pronounced /ˈhɝid/ — HUR-eed. It carries one recorded sense.
moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste
“a hurried trip to the store”
“the hurried life of a city”
“a hurried job”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hurried come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.