Hasty

Quick meaning: Hasty is an adjective meaning Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

Meaning

Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

More Meanings

1. Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
2. (of rain) Heavy, violent.
3. (archaic) Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).

Example Sentences

his hasty temperament

This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.

Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.

Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.

Word Forms

• hastier
• hastiest

Synonyms for hasty

Depending on context, synonyms include brash, headlong, precipitate, hurried, precipitant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hurried, precipitate, precipitant, headlong, precipitated, hurry.

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