hasty
made or done with haste or speed: a hasty visit.
unduly quick; precipitate; rash: a hasty decision.
impatient; impetuous; thoughtless; injudicious: hasty words.
easily irritated or angered; irascible: a hasty temper.
Origin of hasty
1Other words for hasty
Opposites for hasty
Other words from hasty
- hast·i·ly, adverb
- hast·i·ness, noun
- un·hast·y, adjective
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How to use hasty in a sentence
However, many states had set up barriers against hasty nuptials.
How One Small Maryland Town Became the Marriage Capital of the East Coast in the Early 20th Century | Melissa August | February 11, 2021 | TimeA 2019 Princeton survey of dark patterns in e-commerce listed 15 types of dark patterns, including hurdles to canceling subscriptions and countdown timers to rush consumers into hasty decisions.
Under pressure, they have started to make hasty or uninformed decisions, or turn to services that weren’t built for such critical purposes.
Without leadership on vaccine rollout, scams are inevitable | Bobbie Johnson | January 6, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewOne of the most significant is that millions of women and babies have become subjects in a hasty experiment.
Pregnant in the pandemic? It helps to have good Wi-Fi. | Cat Ferguson | December 14, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewJOYY told Bloomberg that the Muddy Waters report was “full of ignorance about the live-streaming industry” and contained “a large number of errors with unclear logic, confusing data, and hasty generalizations.”
China search giant Baidu inked a $3.6 billion deal for a live-streaming platform. Then came the fraud claims | Naomi Xu Elegant | November 19, 2020 | Fortune
Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William PetherickThe natural gentleness of my disposition seemed calculated for the employment, if hastiness had not been mingled with it.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete | Jean Jacques RousseauThe hastiness of Rupert prevented Edgehill from being a victory, and definitely lost Naseby, the final battle of the war.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeWhat, in others, is named hastiness, in men of power is called pride and cruelty.
History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.O master, what a mess of brewis stands now upon the point of spoiling by your hastiness.
British Dictionary definitions for hasty
/ (ˈheɪstɪ) /
rapid; swift; quick
excessively or rashly quick
short-tempered
showing irritation or anger: hasty words
Derived forms of hasty
- hastily, adverb
- hastiness, noun
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