hurried Definition

hurried
adj

1. Carried out or forced to act quickly, especially too quickly.

Thesaurus: hasty, rushed, quick, swift, breakneck, headlong, precipitate, cursory, hectic; Antonym: leisurely.

Derivative: hurriedly
adverb

Derivative: hurriedness
noun

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hurry
verb hurries, hurried, hurrying

1. To urge forward or hasten; to make someone or something move or act quickly.
intr
2. To move or act with haste, especially with excessive speed.

Thesaurus: accelerate, hasten, rush, speed, scurry, bustle, dash, floor it (US slang), step on it (slang), shake a leg (slang); Antonym: delay, procrastinate.

noun

1. Great haste or speed; a driving forward.

Thesaurus: rush, urgency, haste, dispatch, celerity, alacrity, expedition; Antonym: leisureliness
2. The necessity for haste or speed.
3. Flurried or excessive haste.
4. Commotion or confusion.
5. Eagerness.

Idiom: in a hurry

Rushed; in haste.
Example: They were in a hurry because they left late

Readily; willingly.
Example: I won't do that again in a hurry

Etymology: 16c: from English horyen.

Phrasal Verb: hurry someone up or along

To encourage them to move or act more quickly.