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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
Proper noun
Hasty (plural Hastys)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hasty is the 5244th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6654 individuals. Hasty is most common among White (84.79%) and Black/African American (10.75%) individuals.
Anagrams
• sayth, yasht
Etymology
Adjective
hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)
acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
Anagrams
• sayth, yasht
Source: Wiktionary
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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