Synonyms for posthaste
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : pohst-heyst |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊstˈheɪst |
Top 10 synonyms for posthaste Other synonyms for the word posthaste
Définition of posthaste
Origin :- 1590s, from a noun (1530s) meaning "great speed," usually said to be from "post haste" instruction formerly written on letters (attested from 1530s), from post (adv.) + haste (n.). The verb post "to ride or travel with great speed" is recorded from 1550s.
- adv fast
- Didn't she send me posthaste with an umbrella 'cause she see a little cloud in the sky?
- Extract from : « Pollyanna » by Eleanor H. Porter
- He accordingly sent his private secretary Biraga, posthaste to Spain with two letters.
- Extract from : « History of the United Netherlands, 1600-09, Vol. IV. Complete » by John Lothrop Motley
- The bearer on horseback, the horse in a foam—smoking like a boiler at the heat—be sure a posthaste letter!
- Extract from : « The Hunchback » by James Sheridan Knowles
- Posthaste, two months since, came to the house outside Granada, the buyer for the London firm.
- Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
- It was as Rolfe had said, and the free and able-bodied of the plantations had put out, posthaste, for matrimony.
- Extract from : « To Have and To Hold » by Mary Johnston
- These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.
- Extract from : « Autobiography of a YOGI » by Paramhansa Yogananda
- He was prepared, at any alarming silence, to send the boys down there posthaste to investigate.
- Extract from : « Skyrider » by B. M. Bower
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