What is "hasty" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hasty mean in English? Meaning of hasty definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hasty" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hasty": excessively quick

Adjective

  • Meaning: excessively quick
  • Example: made a hasty exit a headlong rush to sell
  • Synonyms: hasty headlong
  • Similar: hurried
  • Meaning of "hasty": done with very great haste and without due deliberation

    Adjective

  • Meaning: done with very great haste and without due deliberation
  • Example: hasty marriage seldom proveth well hasty makeshifts take the place of planning rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
  • Synonyms: hasty overhasty precipitant precipitate precipitous
  • Similar: hurried
  • Adjective: Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret. 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.
  • Synonyms:

    rapid, careless, hurried, impulsive, urgent, sudden, abrupt, quick, ill-advised, expeditious, swift, reckless, agile, brash, breakneck, brief, brisk, cursory, eager, fast, fiery, fleet, fleeting, foolhardy, headlong, heedless, impatient, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, madcap, on the double, passing, perfunctory, precipitate, prompt, pronto, rash, rushed, short, slapdash, snappy, superficial, thoughtless, quickie, PDQ, chop-chop, harefooted, quickened, slambang,

    Antonyms:

    leisurely, careful, cautious, kind, wise, sluggish, delayed, lazy, lingering, slow, thoughtful, loitering,

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