hasty

[hey-stee]

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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.

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Origin of hasty

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

SYNONYMS FOR hasty

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

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ANTONYMS FOR hasty

1. slow. 3. deliberate.

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

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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

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]