What does hasty mean?
Definitions for hasty
ˈheɪ stihasty
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Princeton's WordNet
hasty, headlongadjective
excessively quick
"made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitousadjective
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"
Wiktionary
hastyadjective
Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)
Etymology: hastif (Modern hâtif), from.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hastyadjective
Etymology: hastif, French, from haste; haestig, Dutch.
Is all the counsel that we two have shar’d,
The sisters vows, the hours that we have spent,
When we have chid the hasty footed time
For parting us. William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream.He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Prov. xiv. 29.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov. xxix. 20.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God. Eccl. v. 2.
Beauty shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the Summer. Is. xxviii. 4.
Webster Dictionary
Hastynoun
involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch
Hastynoun
demanding haste or immediate action
Hastynoun
moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager
Hastynoun
made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution
Hastynoun
proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper
Hastynoun
forward; early; first ripe
Etymology: [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]
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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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hasty in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hasty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of hasty in a Sentence
What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons.
Governor Newsom, who supported the failed initiative to end the death penalty in 2006, is usurping the express will of California voters and substituting his personal preferences via this hasty and ill-considered moratorium on the death penalty.
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
The cost is man, the toll is man, and it's this man and every other soldier that fights, if we understand that, maybe we won't be so hasty into jumping into war.
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- متسرعArabic
- precipitatCatalan, Valencian
- unáhlenýCzech
- eilig, hastigGerman
- de prisa, atropellado, presuroso, arrebatado, apresuradoSpanish
- hätäinen, hätiköity, kiireinenFinnish
- cabhagachScottish Gaelic
- פזיזHebrew
- affrettato, frettoloso, precipitosoItalian
- חפוזHebrew
- 軽率Japanese
- haastigDutch
- precipitado, apressadoPortuguese
- спешный, поспешныйRussian
- اُٻَهِرِي, اُٻَهِروSindhi
- unáhlený, prenáhlenýSlovak
- hastig, förhastadSwedish
- aceleciTurkish
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