hasty.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Meaning & usage
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Made in haste.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Ripening or coming to maturity early.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time. Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
Heavy, violent.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
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