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festinate

/ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/

festinate verb: to become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.

Verb

festinate (third-person singular simple present festinates, present participle festinating, simple past and past participle festinated)

  1. To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
  2. (intransitive) To hurry, make haste.
  3. (transitive) To accelerate, quicken, hasten, hurry (something or someone).

Adjective

IPA/ˈfɛstɪnət/

festinate (comparative more festinate, superlative most festinate)

  1. (obsolete) Hurried, hasty.
    • Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

festinate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

festinate in Tamil

விரைவுபடு

festinate in Urdu

رفتار بڑھانا

Forms of festinate

Verb
third-person singular presentfestinates
present participlefestinating
past participlefestinated
pastfestinated
Adjective
comparativemore festinate
superlativemost festinate

Origin of festinate

First attested in 1556; Borrowed from Latin festīnātus, perfect passive participle of festīnō (“to hurry”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from festinate

Questions about festinate

What does festinate mean?
Festinate means to become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
What is festinate in Tamil?
Festinate in Tamil is விரைவுபடு. See Festinate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is festinate?
Festinate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce festinate?
Festinate is pronounced /ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/.
What is the past tense of festinate?
The past tense of festinate is festinated.

Words near festinate in the dictionary

  1. festies
  2. festilogies
  3. festilogy
  4. festinance
  5. festinant
  6. festinate
  7. festinated
  8. festinately
  9. festinates
  10. festinating
  11. festination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: festinate (page history and authors); festinate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); festinate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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