hasty

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

excessively quick“made a hasty exit”“a headlong rush to sell”Synonyms: headlong
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”Synonyms: overhasty precipitate precipitant precipitous

Hasty \Has"ty\ (h[=a]s"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Hastier (-t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Hastiest.] [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]

1.Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch. [1913 Webster]

2.Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.] --Chaucer. "Hasty employment." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3.Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. [1913 Webster]

Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.— Prov. xxix. 20.[1913 Webster]

The hasty multitude Admiring entered.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Be not hasty to go out of his sight.— Eccl. viii. 3.[1913 Webster]

4.Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution. [1913 Webster]

5.Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. [1913 Webster]

Take no unkindness of his hasty words.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

6.Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] "As the hasty fruit before the summer." --Is. xxviii. 4. [1913 Webster]