[heyst] 
noun, verb, hast⋅ed, hast⋅ing.| 1. | swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste. |
| 2. | urgent need of quick action; a hurry or rush: to be in haste to get ahead in the world. |
| 3. | unnecessarily quick action; thoughtless, rash, or undue speed: Haste makes waste. |
| 4. | Archaic. to hasten. |
| 5. | make haste, to act or go with speed; hurry: She made haste to tell the president the good news. |
| haste (hāst) n.
To hasten or cause to hasten. [Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.] Synonyms: These nouns denote rapidity or promptness of movement or activity: left the room in haste; a legal system not known for celerity; advanced with all possible dispatch; cleaned up with remarkable expedition; worked without hurry; driving with excessive speed. |
make haste
Also, make it snappy. Hurry up, move or act quickly, as in If you don't make haste we'll be late, or Make it snappy, kids. The first expression was first recorded in Miles Coverdale's 1535 translation of the Bible (Psalms 39:13): "Make haste, O Lord, to help me." The variant dates from the early 1900s and uses snappy in the sense of "resembling a sudden jerk." The oxymoron make haste slowly, dating from the mid-1700s, is a translation of the Latin festina lente. It is used either ironically, to slow someone down (as in You'll do better if you make haste slowly), or to comment sarcastically on a lack of progress (as in So far the committee has been making haste slowly).