hasty - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'hasty' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hasty

[ n.]

- Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
- Demanding haste or immediate action.
- Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
- Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
- Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
- Forward; early; first ripe.

Meaning of 'hasty' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hasty

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- excessively quick

Example in sentence:

a headlong rush to sell;
made a hasty exit

Meaning (2):
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Example in sentence:

hasty makeshifts take the place of planning;
hasty marriage seldom proveth well;
rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion;
wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

Nearby Words:

has hasard hase hash hashed hasheesh hashing hashish hask haslet

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