Word Meanings - HURRIED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life. 2. Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job. "A hurried meeting." Milton. -- Hur"ried*ly, adv. -- Hur"ried*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HURRIED)

• Hasty
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• irascible
• impetuous
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• fiery
• passionate
• slight
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HURRIED)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to HURRIED)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• HURRICANO
  A waterspout; a hurricane. Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• RECKLESS
  1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• RECRUDESCENT
  recrudescere to become raw again; pref. re- re- + crudescere to 1. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. 2. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.