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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
- Example: "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare
- Example: "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes
- Example: "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"
- Example: "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
[syn: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overhasty adj 1: 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" [syn: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]