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posthaste

2 synonyms for posthaste, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.

Adv — Very quickly, without any delay.

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Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.

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Still standard English, but they carry more weight.

Etymology

From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.

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