Antonyms of adj unhurried

2 senses of unhurried

Sense 1
unhurried (vs. hurried) -- (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice")

hurried (vs. unhurried) -- (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste; "a hurried trip to the store"; "the hurried life of a city"; "a hurried job")
        => flying, quick, fast -- (hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit")
        => hasty, headlong -- (excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell")
        => hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous -- (done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king")
        => helter-skelter, pell-mell -- (with undue hurry and confusion; "a helter-skelter kind of existence with never a pause"; "a pell-mell dash for the train")
        => rush (prenominal), rushed -- (done under pressure; "a rush job")

Sense 2
unhurried -- (capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children")

INDIRECT (VIA patient) -> impatient -- (restless or short-tempered under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism")

Similarity of adj unhurried

2 senses of unhurried

Sense 1
unhurried (vs. hurried) -- (relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice")
       => careful, deliberate, measured -- (unhurried and with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed")
       => easy, easygoing, leisurely -- (not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace")

Sense 2
unhurried -- (capable of accepting delay with equanimity; "was unhurried with the small children")
       => patient (vs. impatient) -- (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient")

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