rushed
/ɹʌʃt/adjective, verb
rushed is an adjective meaning “Very busy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-U-S-H-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears 9.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rushed mean?
adjective
- 1
Very busy.
I was so rushed today, I didn't have time to eat lunch.
- 2
Done in haste; done quickly or hastily.
My rushed attempt at an essay received a predictably poor grade.
- 3
Abounding or covered with rushes.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of rush
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rushed?
- /ɹʌʃt/
Rushed has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-rushed.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rushed
- more rushed comparative
- most rushed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rushed?
Rushed appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Rushed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense done in haste:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.