hasty adj

1 excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: headlong]

2 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" [syn: overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous] [also: hastiest, hastier]

English

Pronunciation

• /ˈheɪsti/

• Rhymes: -eɪsti

Adjective

1. Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)

Derived terms

• hastily, adverb
• hastiness, noun

Related terms

• haste, noun
• hasten, verb
• hasteful, adjective

Translations

See also

• hurried

Hasty may refer to:

• Hasty, Colorado, United States
• HMS Hasty (1894), a Charger class destroyer
• HMS Hasty (H24), an H-class destroyer
• Hasty (racehorse), an unconsidered competitor who finished fifth in the 1840 Grand National

People with the surname Hasty:

• James Hasty (born 1965), American football cornerback
• Stanley Hasty (born 1920), American clarinetist

See also

• Haste
• Hastie
• Hasty attack
• Hasty pudding

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