Hastily Meaning
/ˈheɪstɪli/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
advSoon, shortly.
Sentence Examples
Hastily acquired knowledge was not enough to solve the problem.
Do not answer hastily.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He packed his bags ____ because the taxi was waiting outside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ wrote down her phone number on a scrap of paper and handed it to me as she left.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English hasty Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English hastily From hasty + -ly.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity."
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
"The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him."
— 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
"Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]"
— 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:
"she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...]."
— 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He packed his bags ____ because the taxi was waiting outside.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ wrote down her phone number on a scrap of paper and handed it to me as she left.