Synonyms for hurried
ˈhɜr id, ˈhʌr-hur·ried

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1. hurriedadjective

   moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste

   "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job"

   Antonyms:
   measured, easygoing, deliberate, leisurely, careful, easy, unhurried

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1. hurriedadjective

   Synonyms:
   driven (by work), over head and ears, pressed for time

2. hurriedadjective

   Synonyms:
   hasty, cursory, slight, superficial

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1. hurriedadjective

   Synonyms:
   cursory, hasty, superficial

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1. List of paraphrases for "hurried":

   rushed, hastened, harried, hasty, precipitate, precipitated, precipitous, overhasty, over-hasty, raced, swooped

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1. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

   We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation… we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

2. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered.

3. Clive Staples Lewis:

   Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between *our* feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor' They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now

4. Miranda Baker:

   He kind of hurried out of the car, and then was like ‘I’m going to find someone else to hitchhike,’ and we’re like, okay, it was a weird situation.

5. Seneca:

   While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.