HURRIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hurried mean? 

• HURRIED (adjective)
  The adjective HURRIED has 1 sense:

1. moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

  Familiarity information: HURRIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURRIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

Context example:

a hurried job

Similar:

fast; flying; quick (hurried and brief)

hasty; headlong (excessively quick)

hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous (done with very great haste and without due deliberation)

helter-skelter; pell-mell (with undue hurry and confusion)

rush; rushed (done under pressure)

Also:

fast (acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly)

Antonym:

unhurried (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste)

Derivation:

hurriedness (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

 Context examples 

We hurried away lest we should have been in some way drawn into the affair, and so detained.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“And now they’re payin’ their respects to each other and tryin’ to get clear,” the red-faced man went on, as the hurried whistling ceased.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hans hurried to her, and the barrel went out from under Michael Dennin.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I paid the man and hurried into the church.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sitting on the floor with one boot on, Amy began to cry and Meg to reason with her, when Laurie called from below, and the two girls hurried down, leaving their sister wailing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Along it we hurried in breathless impatience for many hundreds of yards.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I embraced him, took my weeping nurse upon my arm, and hurried away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Without a word Holmes hurried to a carriage, and during the long seven miles’ drive he never opened his mouth.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Tregennis brought back the account to the vicarage, and I at once hurried over with him to consult you.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)