Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Done or made with haste, especially.
- adjective Done or made without due consideration or attention; precipitate or cursory: synonym: impetuous.
- adjective Done or made rapidly due to pressing circumstances.
- adjective Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried.
- adjective Impatient or rudely abrupt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moving or acting with haste; quick; speedy: opposed to slow.
- Eager; precipitate; rash; inconsiderate; acting or arising from heedless impulse or passion: opposed to deliberate.
- Requiring haste or immediate action.
- Early ripe; forward; hasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste.
- adjective rare Demanding haste or immediate action.
- adjective Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
- adjective Made or reached without deliberation or due caution
- adjective Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
- adjective obsolete Forward; early; first ripe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Acting in
haste ; being toohurried orquick . (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective done with very great haste and without due deliberation
- adjective excessively quick
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Cabinet said it also wants the Israeli leadership to apologize for what it described as "hasty" remarks about Egypt.
Egypt Withdraws Ambassador to Israel Following Shootings 2011
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The Cabinet said it also wants the Israeli leadership to apologize for what it described as "hasty" remarks about Egypt.
Egypt Withdraws Ambassador to Israel Following Shootings 2011
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Asmal warned against what he described as hasty and ill-considered responses to the national higher education plan.
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Fisheries director Erminio Lima Alberto told AFP that the EU should reconsider the ban, which he called a hasty measure.
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I'm thirty, and not what you call hasty, as I used to be, or thinking that nothing matters like the French.
The Longest Journey 1924
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Heine says he's been forced to take his stock of the bath salts - worth thousands of dollars - off the shelves because of what he calls a hasty and wrong decision by the attorney general.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Heine says he's been forced to take his stock of the bath salts - worth thousands of dollars - off the shelves because of what he calls a hasty and wrong decision by the attorney general.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Heine says he's been forced to take his stock of the bath salts - worth thousands of dollars - off the shelves because of what he calls a hasty and wrong decision by the attorney general.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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When John Paul's beatification was announced in January, the U.S.-based Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests criticized what it described as a "hasty drive to confer sainthood on the pontiff under whose reign most of the widely documented clergy sex crimes and coverups took place."
Thestar.com - Home Page Sandro Contenta 2011
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Heine says he's been forced to take his stock of the bath salts - worth thousands of dollars - off the shelves because of what he calls a hasty and wrong decision by the attorney general.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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