hasty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite excessively quick
    headlong.
    • made a hasty exit
    • a headlong rush to sell
  2. adjective satellite done with very great haste and without due deliberation
    precipitate; overhasty; precipitant; precipitous.
    • 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

WordNet

Has"ty adjective
Etymology
Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.
Wordforms
comparative Hastier ; superlative Hastiest
Definitions
  1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
  2. Demanding haste or immediate action. R. Chaucer. "Hasty employment." Shak.
  3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
  4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
  5. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
    Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak
  6. Forward; early; first ripe. Obs. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4.

Webster 1913