posthaste.
Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.
Meaning & usage
Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.
It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
Where this word comes from
From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Alternative spelling of post-haste.
Where this word comes from
From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.