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unhasting

unhasting adjective: without haste.

Adjective

unhasting (comparative more unhasting, superlative most unhasting)

  1. Without haste.
    • He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers
    • A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways

Forms of unhasting

comparativemore unhasting
superlativemost unhasting

Origin of unhasting

From un- + hasting.

Questions about unhasting

What does unhasting mean?
Unhasting means without haste.
What part of speech is unhasting?
Unhasting is an adjective.

Words near unhasting in the dictionary

  1. unhasted
  2. unhastened
  3. unhastening
  4. unhastily
  5. unhastiness
  6. unhasting
  7. unhasty
  8. unhat
  9. unhatable
  10. unhatchability
  11. unhatchable

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