hurry

/ˈhʌri/

/ˈhʌri/

Other forms: hurried; hurrying; hurries

To hurry is to rush, or to move quickly. If you're late for a movie and you don't want to miss the beginning, you'll have to hurry into the theater, not stopping to buy popcorn.

When you're out for a walk and the sun begins to set, you might hurry home before it gets dark — in other words, move rapidly, or in haste. You can also hurry someone else, encouraging them to speed up. Your math teacher may criticize your sloppy work by commenting, "Looks like you were in a hurry." Hurry is one of many words that were invented by William Shakespeare, who used it frequently.

Definitions of hurry

1. verb

   move very fast
   synonyms: speed, travel rapidly, zip

   types:

   dart, fleet, flit, flutter

   move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart

   run

   move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time

   whizz, whizz along, zoom, zoom along

   move along very quickly

   butterfly

   flutter like a butterfly

   clip, jog, trot

   run at a moderately swift pace

   scamper, scurry, scuttle, skitter

   move about or proceed hurriedly

   romp

   run easily and fairly fast

   run bases

   run around the bases, in baseball

   streak

   run naked in a public place

   run

   run with the ball; in such sports as football

   outrun

   run faster than

   jog

   run for exercise

   sprint

   run very fast, usually for a short distance

   lope

   run easily

   rush

   run with the ball, in football

   hare

   run quickly, like a hare

   type of:

   go, locomote, move, travel

   change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
2. verb

   act or move at high speed
   “hurry--it's late!”

   synonyms: festinate, hasten, look sharp, rush

   type of:

   act, move

   perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
3. verb

   urge to an unnatural speed
   synonyms: rush

   type of:

   exhort, press, urge, urge on

   force or impel in an indicated direction
4. noun

   the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
   synonyms: haste, rush, rushing

   types:

   bolt, dash

   the act of moving with great haste

   scamper, scramble, scurry

   the act of rushing about hastily in an undignified way

   type of:

   motion, move, movement

   the act of changing location from one place to another
5. noun

   overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
   synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation

   types:

   abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness

   the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning

   type of:

   fastness, speed, swiftness

   a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
6. noun

   a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry
   “in a hurry to lock the door”

   synonyms: haste

   type of:

   urgency

   the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity