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| Main Entry: | rushing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | hurrying |
| Synonyms: | hasty, hastening, losing no time |
| Main Entry: | rushing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | moving with great speed |
| Synonyms: | dashing, driving, flying, moving, racing, running, darting, scurrying |
| Main Entry: | rush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry, speed |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, barrel, bolt, break, career, charge, chase, course, dart, dash, dispatch, expedite, fleet, fling, flit, fly, get the lead out*, haste, hasten, hotfoot*, hustle, press, push, quicken, race, roll, run, scramble, scud, scurry, shoot, sprint, streak, surge, tear, whiz*, zip*, zoom*, fire up, get cracking, go like lightning, hurry up, lose no time, make haste, make short work of, shake a leg, speed up, step on gas |
| Antonyms: | retard, slow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | charge, attack |
| Synonyms: | capture, overcome, storm, surge, take by storm |
| Antonyms: | guard, protect |
| Main Entry: | flowing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gushing, abounding |
| Synonyms: | brimming, continuous, easy, falling, fluent, fluid, full, liquid, overrun, prolific, rich, rolling, running, rushing, sinuous, smooth, sweeping, teeming, unbroken, uninterrupted, cursive, flooded, fluidic, issuing, liquefied, pouring out, rippling, spouting, streaming, tidal |
| Antonyms: | trickling |
| Main Entry: | headlong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, reckless |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, brash, breakneck, daredevil, daring, foolhardy, hasty, hurried, impetuous, impulsive, inconsiderate, precipitate, rash, rough, rushing, sudden, tempestuous, thoughtless, precipitant |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, wary, thoughtfully |
| Main Entry: | hurried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | quick, rushed |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, breakneck, brief, cursory, fast, hasty, headlong, hectic, impetuous, perfunctory, precipitate, precipitous, rushing, short, slapdash, speedy, sudden, superficial, swift, precipitant, subitaneous |
| Antonyms: | easily, leisurely, slow, unhurried, unrushed |
| Main Entry: | impetuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting without thinking |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, ardent, eager, fervid, fierce, furious, hasty, headlong, hurried, impassioned, impulsive, passionate, precipitate, precipitous, rash, restive, rushing, spontaneous, sudden, swift, unbridled, unexpected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unrestrained, unthinking, vehement, violent, going off deep end, precipitant, spur-of-the-moment, subitaneous, unreflecting |
| Antonyms: | calm, cautious, circumspect, considerate, reflective, sensible, thoughtful, wise |
| Main Entry: | sudden |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unexpected; happening quickly |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, accelerated, acute, expeditious, fast, flash, fleet, hasty, headlong, hurried, immediate, impetuous, impromptu, impulsive, out of the blue*, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rapid, rash, rushing, spasmodic, swift, unforeseen, unusual, precipitant, quickened, speeded, subito |
| Antonyms: | expected, slow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hurrying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bustling |
| Synonyms: | dashing, flying, racing, running, rushing, darting, expediting, hastening, propelling, scurrying, speeding |
| Antonyms: | crawling, creeping |
| Main Entry: | pouring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | streaming |
| Synonyms: | flooding, flowing, gushing, rainy, running, rushing, discharging, draining, raining, showering, spilling, spouting, spurting |
| Main Entry: | pressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rushed |
| Synonyms: | rushing, urged, in a hurry, pressured, pushed |
| Main Entry: | racing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speeding |
| Synonyms: | dashing, fast, flying, hurrying, running, rushing, speedy, swift, darting, galloping, hastening, sailing, tearing, whisking, whizzing, zooming |
| Antonyms: | crawling, creeping, slow |
| Main Entry: | racing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | competition |
| Synonyms: | contest, dashing, flying, hurrying, running, rushing, sport, sporting, track, competing, darting, galloping, sailing, sprinting, tearing, trotting, whizzing |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having movement |
| Synonyms: | alive, astir, effective, efficacious, flowing, hasty, mobile, movable, moving, operating, operative, progressive, pushing, rapid, restless, rolling, running, rushing, rustling, simmering, speedy, traveling, walking, working, at work, bustling, exertive, functioning, going, impelling, in force, in play, in process, shifting, speeding, streaming, swarming, turning |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | dormant, immobile, inactive, inert, lazy, sluggish, abeyant |
| Main Entry: | abrupt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening suddenly and unexpectedly |
| Synonyms: | hasty, hurried, jerky, precipitate, precipitous, quick, rushing, sudden, surprising, unceremonious, unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated |
| Antonyms: | deliberate, expansive, gradual, leisurely, at ease |
| Main Entry: | precipitous/precipitate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast, sudden; impulsive; initial |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, breakneck*, brief, frantic, harum-scarum*, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, indiscreet, jump the gun*, madcap, quick, rapid, rash, reckless, refractory, rushing, swift, uncontrolled, unexpected, unforeseen, violent, willful, gone off half-cocked, off the hip, off the top of head, plunging, precipitant, subitaneous, unanticipated, without warning |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, slow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attack |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assault physically |
| Synonyms: | advance, ambush, assail, assault, bash, bat, bean*, beat, beset, besiege, blast, blister, bombard, boot*, brain*, bust, charge, clip, clock*, club, combat, cook*, harm, hit, hurt, infiltrate, invade, jump, kick, molest, mug, overwhelm, punch, raid, rush, slog, soak, stab, storm, strike, turn on, wallop*, aggress, biff, boff, bop, chop down, knock block off, knock cold, knock for a loop, larrup*, lay siege to, light into*, pounce upon, set upon, take the offensive, whop |
| Antonyms: | aid, defend, protect, resist, retreat, shelter, shield, submit, support, surrender, sustain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blast, rush of air, wind |
| Synonyms: | breathe, buffet, drive, exhale, fan, flap, flow, flutter, gasp, heave, huff, inflate, pant, puff, pump, ruffle, rush, stream, swell, swirl, waft, wave, whiff, whirl, whisk, whisper, whistle |
| Main Entry: | bolt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run quickly away |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bail out*, bound, cop out*, cut loose*, cut out*, dart, dash, ditch*, drop out*, dump*, escape, flee, flight, fly, hotfoot*, hurtle, jump, leap, leave in the lurch, make off*, opt out, rush, scamper, scoot, skedaddle*, skip, split*, spring, sprint, start, startle, take off*, walk out on, hightail, kiss goodbye, leave flat, leave high and dry, leave holding the bag, make a break for it, make tracks, run like scared rabbit, run out on, step on it, take flight |
| Antonyms: | stay, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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