gadarene

adjective

ˈga-də-ˌrēn How to pronounce gadarene (audio)
Definition of gadarenenext
as in hurried
acting or done with excessive or careless speed what began as the defection of a handful of employees soon became a gadarene exodus that threatened to leave the advertising agency understaffed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gadarene
  1. hurried
  2. flying
  3. headlong
  4. rash
  5. impulsive
  6. cursory
  7. sudden
  8. precipitate
Adjective
  • The holiday season can be a hurried, slightly stressful time as the countdown to Christmas morning begins.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Briskly paced, de Jonge’s movie covers a lot of ground both tonal and geographic without ever seeming hurried, conspicuously touristic or heavy-handed in its mix of humor and pathos.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of hurried
Adjective
  • Tips for air travel The busiest flying days will be Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Sunday after the holiday, the TSA projects.
    Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Advertisement One of his first flying jobs was towing advertising banners, first in Florida and then in Southern California out of the Compton airport.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
Definition of flying
Adjective
  • The show’s vibrant aesthetic and period pop score, meanwhile, provide a nostalgia trip to the early 2000s — while not shying away from what the era’s headlong embrace of social media did to our grasp on collective truth.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
  • From there things just keep happening, as one event unfolds into another in a headlong rush amid the incessant clatter of plates and pans and the machine spitting out endless order tickets.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of headlong
Adjective
  • Symptoms of measles include high fever — possibly exceeding 104 degrees — cough; runny nose; red, watery eyes; and rash, according to the CDC.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Tennessee will argue Wednesday that minors cannot adequately consent to receiving treatments like puberty blockers and hormones and its law prevents them from making rash medical decisions.
    Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of rash
Adjective
  • One league source wouldn’t put the Bears anywhere near the same level of deterrence as the New York Jets, whose owner, Woody Johnson, has a reputation for being impulsive and volatile.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Does the child make impulsive decisions that might be regretted later?
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of impulsive
Adjective
  • However, any reader of the list with even a cursory knowledge of the European economic landscape will view the figures with skepticism, with the Fortune 500 Europe measuring companies’ revenues from 2023.
    BYRyan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The individual elements of Ka’s style would be familiar to a listener with even a cursory knowledge of rap.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of cursory
Adjective
  • If travel is absolutely necessary, drive with extreme caution and be prepared for sudden changes in visibility.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • At the time, Variety reported the sudden move was likely a way for Warner Bros. Discovery to cut streaming-content costs.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of sudden
Adjective
  • Cancer can both aggravate and precipitate mental illness.
    Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
  • To make sure that in condensing everything, there is nothing forced or too precipitate, no unwieldly jumps.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
Definition of precipitate
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