hurry

1. 1.

   move very fast

   “The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed”

   Synonymstravel rapidlyspeedzip

   Broadertravel

   Narrowerflitrunzoom
2. 2.

   act or move at high speed

   “We have to rush!”

   “hurry--it's late!”

   Synonymsrushhastenlook sharpfestinate

   Broaderact
3. 3.

   urge to an unnatural speed

   “Don't rush me, please!”

   Synonymsrush

   Broaderurge

Other forms of hurry

plural

hurries·

past tense or participle

hurried

present participle

hurrying·

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.

Questions about hurry

What does hurry mean?

hurry means "a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hurry?

hurry has 2 syllables: hur-ry. The stress falls on "hur". In IPA it is /ˈhɝi/.

What is another word for hurry?

Close synonyms include haste, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hurry a common word?

hurry is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.