Definitions for posthaste

posthaste post·haste

Spelling: [pohst-heyst]
IPA: /ˈpoʊstˈheɪst/

Posthaste is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 435 anagrams from letters in posthaste (aehopsstt).

Definitions for posthaste

adverb

  1. with the greatest possible speed or promptness:

noun

  1. Archaic. great haste.

Origin of posthaste

First recorded in 1530-40; post3 + haste

Examples for posthaste

Didn't she send me posthaste with an umbrella 'cause she see a little cloud in the sky?

posthaste, two months since, came to the house outside Granada, the buyer for the London firm.

He was prepared, at any alarming silence, to send the boys down there posthaste to investigate.

It was as Rolfe had said, and the free and able-bodied of the plantations had put out, posthaste, for matrimony.

He accordingly sent his private secretary Biraga, posthaste to Spain with two letters.

The bearer on horseback, the horse in a foam—smoking like a boiler at the heat—be sure a posthaste letter!

These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

Word Value for posthaste
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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