posthaste
advUK /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/ · US /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/
Etymology From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
- It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
- "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 17”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
- Synonyms
- ASAP, quickly