HASTIER

HASTY

hasty, headlong

(adjective) excessively quick; “made a hasty exit”; “a headlong rush to sell”

hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

hastier

comparative form of hasty

Anagrams

• Heratis, Taheris, ariseth, raiseth, sheriat

Source: Wiktionary


HASTY

Has"ty, a. [Compar. Hastier; superl. Hastiest.] Etym: [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]

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.

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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