GADARENE Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

gadarene

adjective

ˈga-də-ˌrēn

Definition of gadarene

as in hurried

acting or done with excessive or careless speed what began as the defection of a handful of employees soon became a gadarene exodus that threatened to leave the advertising agency understaffed

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Hours later, across the globe, after the Dodgers dispatched the San Diego Padres in a season-opening win – and after Mizuhara served as Ohtani’s interpreter in a hurried and rushed postgame media scrum – Hiltzik called ESPN again.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 28 July 2026
That hurried buildup led to an enormous industrial overhang, and, in California’s San Francisco Bay and elsewhere, a sad legacy of polluted and abandoned waterfront.

— Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of hurried

Adjective

Using flying distance, an approximate 400-mile trip became a 3,550-mile journey.

— DP Opinion, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
The white-gold indices, also hand-engraved, and star trails, evoking the night sky, are joined by 18-karat-pink-gold hands, a visible flying-tourbillon cage, a dual-register split-seconds flyback chronograph, and a semi-Gregorian perpetual calendar.

— Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2026

Definition of flying

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The headlong pacing allows nary a breather, though there are enough wry notes, character quirks and offbeat details (remote-control doors, goats, a knife fight on a waterbed) to prevent macho monotony from setting in.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
After the 25-year headlong casualization of fashion and with the pandemic shift to work from home unwinding, everybody is becoming just a little more formal again, said Sonia Lapinsky, leader of fashion retail and managing director at AlixPartners.

— Evan Clark, Footwear News, 24 July 2026

Definition of headlong

Adjective

But before any rash decisions get made, THR has uncovered a lost 007 casting note that Denis Villeneuve may want to take a glance at.

— Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
The most common side effects include a low-grade fever, rash and soreness where the vaccine is administered in the body.

— Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of rash

Adjective

But as with any James Gray film, there are life-altering consequences on the other side of impulsive decision-making for the sake of the American dream.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026
That pause may stop an impulsive post from growing into a much bigger problem.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of impulsive

Adjective

But even a cursory survey of the music, from Iraq to Morocco and across time and styles from the medieval Moors’ ceremonial compositions to Quranic chants to 21st century jazz electronic Syrian wedding music, shows that there are far more than 24.

— Steve Hochman, SPIN, 15 July 2026
The snowy first look released by Apple back in March honestly bares some cursory resemblance to the snowy, period, Eastern European setting that the AI prompt manages to generate — which again is just for a storyboard!

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 2 June 2026

Definition of cursory

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