unhasting

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adjective

Without haste.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveunhasting (comparative more unhasting, superlative most unhasting)

comparative more unhasting · superlative most unhasting

  1. Without haste.

    A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.

    1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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APA

unhasting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhasting

MLA

“unhasting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhasting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unhasting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhasting.

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