OVERHASTY

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


Etymology

Adjective

overhasty (not comparable)

Too hasty.

I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.

Source: Wiktionary


O"ver*has"ty, a.

Definition: Too hasty; precipitate; rash.

– O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv.

– O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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