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Definition of haste : 1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; - applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
3. To hasten; to hurry.

Synonyms:

expeditiousness, bucket, go like lightning, fleet, impetuosity, nip, highball, scuttle, vehemence, hurry, recklessness, fast, get a move on, tear, make time, rush, get cracking, incautiousness, kick, run, plunge, carelessness, hasten, foolhardiness, heedlessness, race, trot, fly, precipitance, festinate, shoot, zoom, precipitateness, scurry, move, unrestraint, rip, hurly-burly, go like the wind, hustle, dash, hotfoot, giddiness, rushing, careful, upsurge, speed, make haste, wing, downfall, promptness, bang, barrel, caution, hastiness, scoot, run like the wind, rapidness, pelt, anticipation, testiness, whirl, expedition, make tracks, surge, shake a leg, dispatch, precipitancy, rashness, prudence, scamper, thrill, boot, whiz, flit, whisk, flush, hotfoot it, press, dart, celerity, irrationality, spate, rocket, sprint, scour, importance, sail, charge, bolt, scramble, excitation, outburst, hustling, zip, precipitation

impatience, quickness, abruptness, bustle, flurry, briskness, hurriedness, fleetness, fastness, speediness, feverishness, swiftness, urgency, rapidity

immediacy, instantaneousness, heartbeat, flash, suddenness, twinkling, trice

in a hurry, hurrying, moving fast

Usage examples:

• But there was no haste now. - "The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On", Eugene Manlove Rhodes.
• Come, let us haste, I fear we are pursu'd. - "The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6)", Aphra Behn.
• I can quite understand your haste now. - "The Red Rat's Daughter", Guy Boothby.