hasty

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adjective, hast·i·er, hast·i·est.

moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.

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.

Origin of hasty

1300–50; Middle English < Middle French hasti, hastif; see haste, -ive

Related formshast·i·ly, adverbhast·i·ness, nounun·hast·i·ly, adverbun·hast·y, adjective

Synonyms for hasty

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1. swift, rapid, fast, fleet, brisk. 3. foolhardy, reckless, headlong. 6. testy, touchy, fiery, excitable, irritable.

Antonyms for hasty

1. slow. 3. deliberate.

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Related Words for hastily

suddenly, swiftly, nimbly, speedily, quickly, prematurely, carelessly, promptly, hurriedly, apace, fast, flat-out, impetuously, impulsively, lickety-split, posthaste, rapidly, rashly, recklessly, straightaway

Examples from the Web for hastily

Contemporary Examples of hastily

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Historical Examples of hastily

The alderman saw no reason to repent his decision, hastily as it had been made.
The Armourer's Prentices
Charlotte M. Yonge
"It's all right, Fannie," Aggie said hastily to the flustered maid.
Within the Law
Marvin Dana
Chip blushed under the praise and hastily answered the question.
Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower
Hastily he uncorked the left-hand bottle, and was immediately reassured.
The Leopard Woman
Stewart Edward White
Belinda hastily withdrew her eyes from the picture at which she was looking.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth

British Dictionary definitions for hastily

hasty

adjective -tier or -tiest

rapid; swift; quick

excessively or rashly quick

short-tempered

showing irritation or angerhasty words

Derived Formshastily, adverbhastiness, noun

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Word Origin and History for hastily

adv.

c.1300, "quickly," from hasty + -ly (2). Meaning "without due consideration" is 1580s.

hasty

adj.

mid-14c., "speedy, quick," by 1500s replacing or nativizing earlier hastif (c.1300) "eager, impetuous," from Old French hastif "speedy, rapid; forward, advanced; rash, impetuous" (12c., Modern French hâtif), from haste (see haste). Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (the sense in hasty pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "rash" is from early 15c. Related: Hastiness. Old French also had a form hasti (for loss of terminal -f, cf. joli/jolif, etc.), which may have influenced the form of the English word.

The termination was doubtless from the first identified with native -i, -y, from OE -ig; and it is noticeable that the other Teutonic langs. have formed corresponding adjs. of that type: Du. haastig, Ger., Da., Sw. hastig. [OED]