Hasty
['heɪstɪ] or ['hesti]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(n.) Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
(n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.
(n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
(n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
(n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
(n.) Forward; early; first ripe.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Quick, swift, rapid, fleet, speedy, fast, brisk.[2]. Cursory, slight, hurried.[3]. Rash, precipitate, headlong, reckless, thoughtless, indiscreet.[4]. Passionate, irritable, touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, petulant, peevish, fretful, fiery, choleric, irascible, excitable, hot, peppery.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Speedy, rapid, superficial, hurried, irascible, impetuous, reckless, headlong,crude, incomplete, undeveloped, immature, swift, precipitate, fiery,passionate, slight, quick, excitable, rash, cursory
ANT:Slow, leisurely, careful, close, reflective, developed, matured, complete,elaborate, thoughtful, deliberate
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Examples
- On a hasty review of his unfortunate position, Mr. Snagsby can't say either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It appeared, indeed, from the countenance of this proprietor, that he was of a frank, but hasty and choleric temper. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Thornton made a hasty step or two forwards; recovered himself, and went with quiet firmness to the door (which she had left open), and shut it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The attack was made, the Mexican reserves behind the works beat a hasty retreat, and those occupying them surrendered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You are rather too kind sometimes, and then just a trifle hasty when he tries your patience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- With this idea in her head, she hailed an approaching omnibus with such a hasty gesture that the daisies flew out of the pot and were badly damaged. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Now that he had reached a cooler moment he would have preferred a less hasty marriage; but the card was laid, and he determined to abide by the game. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tom cast a hasty glance at the upper part of the house as he threw the reins to the hostler, and stuck the whip in the box. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Molly