Definitions for hasty
ˈheɪ stihasty

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hasty, headlong(adj)

   excessively quick

   "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"

2. hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous(adj)

   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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1. hasty(Adjective)

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

Origin: hastif (Modern hâtif), from .

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1. Hasty(noun)

   involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch

2. Hasty(noun)

   demanding haste or immediate action

3. Hasty(noun)

   moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager

4. Hasty(noun)

   made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution

5. Hasty(noun)

   proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper

6. Hasty(noun)

   forward; early; first ripe

Origin: [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]

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1. Hasty

   Hasty is a census-designated place and a U.S. Post Office located in Bent County, Colorado, United States. The population as of the 2010 Census was 144. The Hasty Post Office has the ZIP Code 81044.

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1. sayth

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hasty in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hasty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of hasty in a Sentence

1. Saadi Shirazi:

   Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.

2. Lao Tzu:

   The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

3. Ecclesiastes 79 Bible Hebrew:

   Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

4. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler:

   We can not simply rely on what may be a hasty, partisan interpretation of the facts.

5. Robert Southey:

   How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

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