hurrying

Other forms of hurrying

plural

hurryings·

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 hurrying

What does hurrying mean?

hurrying means "changing location rapidly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hurrying?

hurrying has 3 syllables: hur-ry-ing. The stress falls on "hur". In IPA it is /ˈhɝiɪŋ/.

What is another word for hurrying?

Close synonyms include speed, speeding, scurrying. 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 hurrying a common word?

hurrying is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.