Hasty

Word HASTY
Character 5
Hyphenation has ty
Pronunciations /ˈheɪsti/

Definitions and meanings of "Hasty"

What do we mean by hasty?

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. adjective

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.

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste. adjective

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

Forward; early; first ripe. adjective

Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.) adjective

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation adjective

Excessively quick adjective

Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hasty

The word "hasty" in example sentences

The Cabinet said it also wants the Israeli leadership to apologize for what it described as "hasty" remarks about Egypt. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Asmal warned against what he described as hasty and ill-considered responses to the national higher education plan. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Fisheries director Erminio Lima Alberto told AFP that the EU should reconsider the ban, which he called a hasty measure. ❋ Unknown (1998)

I'm thirty, and not what you call hasty, as I used to be, or thinking that nothing matters like the French. ❋ Unknown (1924)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Lawmakers said sabotage was not in play in the Abadan incidents and instead accused Ahmadinejad of ignoring "well-known technical problems" in what they described as the hasty opening of the refinery. ❋ Kay Armin Serjoie (2011)

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." ❋ Sandro Contenta (2011)

American Petroleum Institute and National Assn. of Manufacturers, welcomed the delays as a mea culpa by the administration for making what they call hasty decisions on environmental regulation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The head of Iraq's Bar Association was critical of what he called a hasty trial with clear political dimensions.

All our hopes are hung around the dream of a world at peace, and if we made a mistake in hasty demobilization, it was a mistake of the head, not of the heart. ❋ Unknown (1952)

Certain hasty charges have been made against the TVA. ❋ Unknown (1939)

And when a morning came and she called a hasty meeting of her four closest comrades, voicing imperative needs and fervent appeals for help, she readily secured four promises of attendance in the Cloude Cote that evening at exactly seven-thirty. ❋ Ethel Hueston (1933)

Old Man Shaw stood up in hasty bewilderment; then a pair of girlish arms were about his neck, and a pair of warm red lips were on his; girlish eyes, full of love, were looking up into his, and a never-forgotten voice, tingling with laughter and tears blended into one delicious chord, was crying, ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)

Stir flour into boiling milk to the consistence of a thin hasty pudding, and in fifteen or twenty minutes it will be fit for the table. ❋ Unknown (1865)

Babylon: 15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? ❋ Unknown (1721)

Republicans want energy changes in stimulus bill they call hasty ❋ Unknown (2009)

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