Hurry word meaning and definition

Beside meaning and definition for word "hurry", on this page you can find other interesting information too, like synonyms or related words. On bottom of the page we have fun area, like tarot cards, numerology for these Five characters, how to write "hurry" with bar codes or hand signs and more.. Table of Contents:

• Meaning and definition
• Synonyms for hurry
• Antonyms
• See also
• Related words or terms

• Letter statistic
• Hand signs, morse code
• Tarot cards, numerology
• Other fun

Do you like word(s) »hurry«?

Meaning and definition for "hurry" word

[noun] the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book"
[noun] overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
[noun] a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door"
[verb] urge to an unnatural speed; "Don't rush me, please!"
[verb] act or move at high speed; "We have to rush!"; "hurry--it's late!"
[verb] move very fast; "The runner zipped past us at breakneck speed"

-------------

\Hur"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hurried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hurrying}.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of imitative origin.] 1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. --South. They hurried him abroad a bark. --Shak. 2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends. --Shak. 3. To cause to be done quickly. Syn: To hasten; precipitate; expedite; quicken; accelerate; urge.
\Hur"ry\, v. i. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry. {To hurry up}, to make haste. [Colloq.]
\Hur"ry\, n. The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion. Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, it inflames the mind, and puts into a violent hurry of thought. --Addison. Syn: Haste; speed; dispatch. See {Haste}.

Synonyms for hurry

haste, haste, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation, rush, rush, rushing, speed, travel rapidly, zip

Antonyms: delay, detain, hold up

Related terms: brouhaha, bustle, celerity, crowd, disquiet, drive, flight, get moving, hasten, hound on, hurry away, perturbation, precipitation, round pace, run, rustle, scuttle, spur on, tear out, uproar, whip, yeastiness

The fun area, different aproach to word »hurry«

Let's analyse "hurry" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and One vowel (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 20% of vowels is 18.6% less then average English word. Written in backwards: YRRUH. Average typing speed for these characters is 1295 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: .... ..- .-. .-. -.--

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: hurry: 3 = 3, reduced: 3 (or 1 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Three.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: hurry: 8 + 3 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 36, reduced: 9, and the final result is Nine.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
H (1)	8	Strength	Couragous, Faithful, Caring
R (2)	18	Moon	Patient, Determined, Strong
U (1)	21	World	Gifted, Generous, Bountiful
Y (1)	25	Knight of Wands	Brave, Daring, Bold, Charismatic, Brash

Search internet for "hurry"

> Search images
> BING Search
> Google (Safe) Search
> Video search
> Translate: hurry to Spanish
*Results in new window

Page generated in 0.0071 seconds.