hasty (adj.)

  1. excessively quick; made a hasty exit; a headlong rush to sell

    [ Syn: headlong ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: overhasty , precipitate , precipitant , precipitous ]

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