different between zeal vs haste

English

Etymology

From Middle English zele, from Old French zel, from Late Latin z?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (zêlos, “zeal, jealousy”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“to search”). Related to jealous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zi?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /zil/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

zeal (countable and uncountable, plural zeals)

1. The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

   Synonyms: ardour, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

   Antonym: apathy

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Romans 10.2,^[1]

     […] I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

   • 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, London: Jacob Tonson, Part 3, p. 96,^[2]

     Zeal, the blind conductor of the will

   • 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 12, pp. 143-144,^[3]

     […] the highest zeal in religion and the deepest hypocrisy, so far from being inconsistent, are often or commonly united in the same individual character.

   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, London: John Murray, Volume 1, Chapter 14, p. 250,^[4]

     [He] would begin admiring her drawings with so much zeal and so little knowledge as seemed terribly like a would-be lover,

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 15, p. 248,^[5]

     The stockman’s zeal for eliminating the coyote has resulted in plagues of field mice, which the coyote formerly controlled.

2. (obsolete) A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.

   Synonym: zealot

   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, London: Robert Allot, Act V, Scene 5, p. 85,^[6]

     […] like a malicious purblinde zeale as thou art!

   • 1642, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, p. 5,^[7]

     […] there are questionlesse both in Greeke, Roman and Africa Churches, solemnities, and ceremonies, whereof the wiser zeales doe make a Christian use, and stand condemned by us;

3. The collective noun for a group of zebras.

   Synonyms: dazzle, herd

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Elza, laze, zale

English

Etymology

Blend of Middle English hasten (verb), (compare Dutch haasten, German hasten, Danish haste, Swedish hasta (“to hasten, rush”)) and Middle English hast (“haste”, noun), from Old French haste (whence French hâte), from Old Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“struggle, conflict”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eyp- (“to ridicule, mock, anger”). Akin to Old Frisian h?st, h?ste (“haste”), Old English h?st (“violence”), Old English h?ste (“violent, impetuous, vehement”, adj), Old Norse heift/heipt (“feud”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (haifsts, “rivalry”). Cognate with German and Danish heftig (“vehement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st

Noun

haste (uncountable)

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

   We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

   • The king's business required haste.

2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

   • I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

haste (third-person singular simple present hastes, present participle hasting, simple past and past participle hasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
2. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.

Synonyms

• (move with haste): hurry, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry

References

Anagrams

• ashet, haets, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh, sheat

Basque

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /(?)as?.te/

Noun

haste inan

1. Verbal noun of hasi.

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ast?]
• Rhymes: -ast?

Verb

haste (imperative)

1. second-person plural imperative of hasit

Esperanto

Adverb

haste

1. hastily

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hast?/
• Hyphenation: has?te
• Homophone: hasste

Verb

haste

1. inflection of hasten:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative
2. (colloquial) contraction of hast du

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

haste (present tense hastar, past tense hasta, past participle hasta, passive infinitive hastast, present participle hastande, imperative hast)

1. Alternative form of hasta

Old French

Alternative forms

• hast, ast

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hai(f)st (“violence, haste”), from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (“conflict, struggle”)

Noun

haste f (oblique plural hastes, nominative singular haste, nominative plural hastes)

1. urgency, haste, speed

Derived terms

• haster
• hasteier
• hastece, hastance
• hastif

Descendants

• Middle French: haste
  • French: hâte
• Walloon: hausse (Forrières), håsse (Liégeois)
• ? Middle Dutch: haest, haeste, haste, hast (reborrowing)
  • Dutch: haast
    • Afrikaans: haas
  • ? West Flemish: hoast
  • ? Middle Low German: h?st
    • Middle High German: h?st
      • German: Hast
• ? Middle English: haste, hast
  • English: haste

References

Portuguese

Etymology

From hasta.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a?t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ast?i/

Noun

haste f (plural hastes)

1. pole
2. (botany) stem, stalk

Derived terms

• hastear

Further reading

• “haste” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.