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- Dictionaryhasty/ˈheɪsti/
adjective
- 1. done with excessive speed or urgency; hurried: "a hasty attempt to defuse the situation" Similar Opposite
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HASTY definition: 1. Hasty actions are done in a hurry, sometimes without the necessary care or thought: 2. Hasty…. Learn more.
The meaning of HASTY is done or made in a hurry. How to use hasty in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Hasty.
A hasty movement, action, or statement is sudden, and often done in reaction to something that has just happened.
Hasty most commonly means too fast and often careless. Synonyms include rash, rushed, or hurried. The noun haste most commonly refers to urgency, such as in completing a task. Haste can also be used as another word for speed or swiftness. But haste also commonly means urgency or speed that is careless or reckless.
Hasty means speedy and brash. If you try to make a hasty exit after breaking up with someone, you’ll seem like a jerk. Hasty, meaning “speedy, quick,” first came onto the scene in the mid 14th century.
a. Done or made without due consideration or attention; precipitate or cursory: a hasty decision; a hasty conclusion. See Synonyms at impetuous. b. Done or made rapidly due to pressing circumstances: beat a hasty retreat; bid a hasty goodbye. 2. a. Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried: Don't be too hasty in taking sides. b.
hasty in doing something (of a person) acting or deciding too quickly, without enough thought. Perhaps I was too hasty in rejecting his offer.
Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried. Don't be too hasty in taking sides. American Heritage. Done or made too quickly and with too little thought; rash; impetuous. Webster's New World. Impatient or rudely abrupt. American Heritage. Short-tempered. Webster's New World.
HASTY meaning: done very quickly, usually too quickly and without thinking enough: . Learn more.
made or done with haste or speed: a hasty visit. unduly quick; precipitate; rash: a hasty decision. brief; fleeting; slight; superficial: a hasty glance. impatient; impetuous; thoughtless; injudicious: hasty words. easily irritated or angered; irascible: a hasty temper.
