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Definitions of hasty
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Demanding haste or immediate action.
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Hurried; quick; rash; passionate.
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Hastiness.
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Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
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Precipitate; quick; eager; vehement; irritable.
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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"
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Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
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Forward; early; first ripe.
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Speedy: quick: rash: eager: passionate.
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Quick; speedy; eager; precipitate; irritable; rash.
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Quick; speedy; eager; precipitate; easily excited to wrath; passionate.
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Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
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Hastily.
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Acting or done with haste; rash; impetuous; irascible.
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excessively quick; " made a hasty exit"; " a headlong rush to sell"
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Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
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Hastiest.
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Hastier.
Antonyms for hasty
dawdling, faltering, considered, thoughtful, prolonged, slow, shilly-shallying, long-term, hesitating, tardy, sluggish, deliberate, foresighted, extended, hesitant, leisurely, dilatory, measured, crawling, creeping, Dallying, calculating, dragging, Snail-paced, lagging, late, laggard, dillydallying, poking, circumspect, plodding, calculated, languid, tentative, snaillike, advised, forethoughtful, poky, drawn-out, unhurried, studied, lingering, Weighed, reasoned, thought-out.
Quotes of hasty
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
– Wilkie Collins -
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
– Robert Frost -
I don't believe in hasty marriages.
– Anna Held -
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
– Robert Southey -
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
– Woodrow Wilson
Usage examples for hasty
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“ With her hasty response Jewel promptly jumped into the bed, from which the white spread had been removed. ”
– Jewel A Chapter In Her Life by Clara Louise Burnham -
“ Perhaps General Pasquale may have been too hasty ”
– Steve Yeager by William MacLeod Raine -
“ I'm over hot and hasty that I am. ”
– Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot -
“ But, Tom, why were you so hasty in the matter? ”
– The Mystery of Monastery Farm by H. R. Naylor -
“ And Eve glanced around, and saw that no one was looking, and presently with a hasty movement she seized the fruit and ate of it. ”
– The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler -
“ Not so much as a chair was left, although its owners had certainly not taken any furniture away with them in their hasty escape by night, with Ned and Zuroaga. ”
– Ahead of the Army by W. O. Stoddard -
“ Was it because of Rachel Hyde's hasty departure? ”
– Irene Iddesleigh by Amanda McKittrick Ros -
“ Fairy prepared a hasty supper, and arranged it on the kitchen table. ”
– Prudence of the Parsonage by Ethel Hueston -
“ Dear Rachel, I am so afraid I was hasty I could not sleep without coming to tell you how sorry I am. ”
– The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge -
“ " No, sir," said the Captain, " he did not- I am sorry for it- I think Jack must be in the wrong, for he said he had been too hasty and yet he wouldn't ask me to come to you and make it up. ”
– Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes -
“ The violence I did to my proud and hasty nature was so great, that I could hold out no longer. ”
– The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon -
“ " No, I must get back," he said decidedly, without again looking at Ruth; and with a hasty good- evening he went out into the dark. ”
– The Squire's Daughter by Silas K(itto) Hocking -
“ " Blue Bonnet was hasty said Mrs. Clyde, " and I'm sure she'll be ready to apologize as soon as she has thought it over." ”
– Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by C. E. Jacobs Edyth Ellerbeck Read -
“ Vera's question, and Dorothy's hasty reply reached Patricia's ears. ”
– Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore by Amy Brooks -
“ That's the beginning and the end of the matter, but perhaps for her sake I should not be hasty ”
– Betty Trevor by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey -
“ He did it, but in a terrible, hasty way. ”
– The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett -
“ It seems to me ye're might hasty in jumpin' t' conclusions. ”
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“ If the Governor needs assistance you will give it, but do nothing hasty ”
– Red Men and White by Owen Wister -
“ My husband was very hasty so he took fire at these words. ”
– The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon -
“ " Oh, yes, you will, Patty; but don't be hasty dear child. ”
– Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells