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The general was forced to make a hurried decision.
She had a hurried meeting with her advisers before speaking to the press.
Recent Examples of hurried from the Web
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Telegram had ordered its lawyers to skip the hearing in protest of the hurried process.
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The hurried moves came a day after Trump surprised the military and some of his own staff with talk of deploying troops to guard the border.
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For a moment, the only sounds were the hurried prayers of the civil servants mumbling under their breath.
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The hurried response to that blast spoke to the unease in Austin as officials waited to see if another explosive would emerge.
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King has been in an anxious mood all day, and his room reflects his hurried state of mind.
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The other is a hurried homemaker who doesn’t want to spend time or effort in the kitchen but still wants to eat good food.
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In Asia, where governments are engaged in hurried preparations for a momentous inter-Korea summit followed by a potentially historic encounter between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, there were signs of nervousness.
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Bright , after a hurried survey of the situation, declared his belief that few, if any, of the ranchers, power workmen and power substation employes in San Francisquito canyon, the site of the dam, had escaped.
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First Known Use of hurried
1667
hurried Synonyms
Synonyms
cursory, flying, hasty, headlong, helter-skelter, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
calculated, calculating, measured;
circumspect, foresighted, forethoughtful;
drawn-out, extended, long-term, prolonged;
faltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentative;
dallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky (or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow;
Related Words
headstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvised;
horseback, impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, off-the-cuff, rush, slapdash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment;
HURRIED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of hurried for English Language Learners
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: happening or done very quickly or too quickly
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: working very quickly or too quickly
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