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overhasty - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'overhasty' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Overhasty [ a.]
- Too hasty; precipitate; rash.

Meaning of 'overhasty' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . overhasty [ s]
Meaning (1):
- 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:

oven ovenbird over over-arm over-busy over-garment over-story overabound overact overaction

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