in haste

1. 1.

   in a hurried or hasty manner

   “the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful”

   “hastily, he scanned the headlines”

   “sold in haste and at a sacrifice”

   Synonymshurriedlyhastily

Questions about in haste

What does in haste mean?

in haste means "in a hurried or hasty manner".

What is another word for in haste?

Close synonyms include hurriedly, hastily. 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 in haste a common word?

in haste is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.