hasty
[hey-stee]
- 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.
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Origin of hasty
Synonyms
See more synonyms for hasty on Thesaurus.com1. swift, rapid, fast, fleet, brisk. 3. foolhardy, reckless, headlong. 6. testy, touchy, fiery, excitable, irritable.
Antonyms
1. slow. 3. deliberate.
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Examples from the Web for hastily
Contemporary Examples
And while there now are blood reserves lining hospital shelves, Dudley said the nonprofit is hastily approaching a crisis.
A senior Russian ambassador has demanded—and been hastily given—a top-level appointment at the Foreign Office today.
Charles's Hitler-Putin Comparison Shows Why Many Believe He Is Not Fit To Be KingTom Sykes
May 22, 2014
This week Weiner addressed the new revelations at a hastily called press conference.
“It caused the perpetrators to hastily plan and make mistakes,” Cilluffo said.
Instead they hastily passed what was basically a draft bill, which had done virtually nothing about the MEPs.
Historical Examples
The alderman saw no reason to repent his decision, hastily as it had been made.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
"It's all right, Fannie," Aggie said hastily to the flustered maid.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Chip blushed under the praise and hastily answered the question.
Chip, of the Flying UB. M. Bower
Hastily he uncorked the left-hand bottle, and was immediately reassured.
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
Belinda hastily withdrew her eyes from the picture at which she was looking.
Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
hasty
- rapid; swift; quick
- excessively or rashly quick
- short-tempered
- showing irritation or angerhasty words
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Word Origin and History for hastily
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]
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