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haste

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Excessive speed or urgency; to hurry—used to convey haste, sometimes with negative connotations of recklessness.

Detailed Definition
“Haste” implies rashness—“haste makes waste.” In poetry, it marks tragic misjudgment (Romeo’s haste). The noun and verb appear in warnings or frantic action. Poets use it to explore tension between urgency and wisdom, where speed leads to error in love, war, or decision-making, reinforcing carpe diem’s shadow: carpe tempus with care.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Make haste, for night approaches fast,” urges the watchman in a border ballad; In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: “Haste me hence to Mantua”; “Haste makes waste, yet delay brings ruin,” a paradoxical proverb in verse; Milton’s angels move “with haste that mocks the wind”; “She fled with haste, leaving only a ribbon behind”; Haste not to judge, lest truth escape thee.
Additional Notes
“Haste” often carries negative connotations of rashness (“more haste, less speed”); in tragic or cautionary verse, characters who “make haste” court disaster, framing urgency as a flaw rather than virtue.
Also Known As
speed hurry swiftness
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