hurry

Meaning

Noun

1. Rushed action.
2. Urgency.
3. an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Verb

1. To do things quickly.
2. Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
3. To cause to be done quickly.
4. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
5. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
6. To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.

Synonyms

rush

hasten

haste

make haste

speed

run

hustle

urge on

bustle

dash

💨

scurry

quickly

in a hurry

hurry up

expedite

quick

hurriedness

race

precipitation

hie

hastiness

drive on

be in a hurry

be quick

precipitate

move quickly

quicken

quickness

fast

hastle

press

urgency

urge

flee

scoot

accelerate

speed up

sprint

look sharp

dart

🎯

now

escape

precipitance

do quickly

go quickly

be hasty

festinate

rushing

frenzy

expedition

hasty

go fast

rash

zip

power

brevity

rudeness

persist in

dispatch

fly

✈️

go

travel rapidly

strength

scamper

swift

scramble

gallop

scuttle

fuss

force

be flustered

walk fast

run away

skedaddle

skelter

skitter

squash

squeeze

stir

storm

stride

study

suspense

swiftness

tear

turn to

urgently

walk

🚶

whip up

whirl

worried

😟

be flurried

dash against

dispatch rider

find time

look alive

move fast

move rapidly

move swiftly

run about

be in haste

be hurried

urge forward

be light

walk quickly

trot off

be energetic

be in a nervous hurry

be snap

flurriedly

in a nervous hurry

make hurry

reach over

whip on

scurry about

do anything quickly

move with speed

Hunt

swiften

whirry

cause to hurry

try to compel

use compulsion to

act quickly

despatch rider

be in a

do things quickly

travelpin.ga-la-

activity

advance

affirm

anticipate

anxious

be anxious

beat a hasty retreat

be early

belt along

bucket

🪣

buck up

budge

burst

busk

bustle about

can’t wait

celerity

chase

come

commotion

compel

confuse

constrain

crowd

despatch

desperate

disarrange

dwell

eager

enthuse

facilitate

flurry

fluster

frivolous

fugue

further

get going

goings-on

hastily

hunt

hurried

hurriedly

hurtle

impel

impetuosity

impulse

in haste

insist

lightly

maintain

make fast

might

necessity

oppress

perplex

pinch

post

precipitancy

precipitateness

press on

promote

prompt

promptness

push

railroad

rapid

rapidity

rashness

reminders

rouse

run along

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhʌɹ.i/

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”) (compare Latin currō (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwarsär (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.