Definitions for: Hasty


[adj] excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: Has"ty, a. [Compar. Hastier; superl. Hastiest.]
[Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]
1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty
sketch.

2. Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.] --Chaucer.
``Hasty employment.'' --Shak.

3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying;
hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash;
easily excited; eager.

4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a
hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty
resolution.

5. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.

Take no unkindness of his hasty words. --Shak.

6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] ``As the hasty fruit
before the summer.'' --Is. xxviii. 4.

Synonyms: headlong, hurried, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate

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