IN HASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in haste mean? 

• IN HASTE (adverb)
  The adverb IN HASTE has 1 sense:

1. in a hurried or hasty manner

  Familiarity information: IN HASTE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN HASTE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hurried or hasty manner

Synonyms:

hastily; hurriedly; in haste

Context example:

sold in haste and at a sacrifice

 Context examples 

So the father sent one of his sons in haste to the spring to get some water, but the other six ran with him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Oh yes! certainly,” cried Fanny, rising in haste, the haste of embarrassment and of wanting to get away—“I will write directly.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Sir Nigel will await us, and he in haste.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You may forget about a legal deduction you can take advantage of but in haste forget about.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And between this and the smells arising from various pots boiling and bubbling on the galley fire, I was in haste to get out into the fresh air.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At about half past twelve, a remarkably loud rap drew her in haste to the window, and scarcely had she time to inform Catherine of there being two open carriages at the door, in the first only a servant, her brother driving Miss Thorpe in the second, before John Thorpe came running upstairs, calling out, Well, Miss Morland, here I am.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She jumped up and moved in haste towards the door, crying out, “I will go to my uncle. My uncle ought to know it as soon as possible.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But here comes a cavalier who is indeed in haste.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were telling one another of all the places where they had been waddling about all the morning, and what good food they had found; and one said in a pitiful tone: Something lies heavy on my stomach; as I was eating in haste I swallowed a ring which lay under the queen’s window.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)