hasty English

Meaning hasty meaning

What does hasty mean?

Definitions in simple English

hasty Adjective

— When something is hasty, it is done in haste, very quickly or in a hurried manner. Without taking time to think about it, they made a hasty decision to take up the project.

hasty

— adjective (= headlong) excessively quick made a hasty exit a headlong rush to sell

— adjective (= overhasty, precipitate) 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

Synonyms hasty synonyms

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hasty English » English

rash

hurried

reckless

impetuous

quick

precipitate

impulsive

urgent

cursory

thoughtless

speedy

heedless

rapid

pressing

precipitous

impatient

hastily

careless

quick-tempered

prompt

precipitant

imprudent

fast

expeditious

eager

anxious

unceremoniously

swift

superficial

short-tempered

restless

previous

premature

perfunctory

overhasty

naughty

ill-considered

hurry

hurriedly

headlong

haste

fidgety

desperate

brisk

brash

unreflected

uneasy

unconsidered

unceremonious

tearing

Topics hasty topics

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States Time Speed

Quick

• What words describe an action that is done quickly?
  fast quick quickly quickness speedy speeding speedily speed hasty hastily haste rapid rapidly rapidity hurry hurried hurriedly in a hurry swift swiftly swiftness rush rush into rush through in a rush express

Examples hasty examples

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Simple sentences

Let's not be too hasty.

Hasty marriage seldom succeeds.

We ate a hasty meal and left immediately.

I ate a hasty lunch.

I had a hasty breakfast and left home.

He had a hasty breakfast.

Don't do anything hasty.

This was a hasty translation.

Tom had a hasty breakfast.

There is no need to draw a hasty conclusion.

Let's not make any hasty decisions. Let's sleep on it.

Don't be hasty.

Movie subtitles

Sir, I beg to report, that we were over-hasty and said the Emperor's a fool.

Aren't you a bit hasty, Mr. Bradley?

I'd hate to see you take any hasty action in a matter like this.

Pop don't make no hasty judgments.

Judy, it seems to me, if I may say so we are making rather a hasty decision.

Hasty work is sloppy work.

Aye, I will, sir. Maybe I were a bit hasty.

I may have been hasty..

Not so hasty, Sir Guy.

Don't be hasty, Saveliy!

Boys I should like to say that my judgment. in the first place, was hasty and ill-advised.

Don't make any hasty decisions.

Not so hasty!

Why, you are too hasty, sir!

Don't be too hasty.

No hasty arrests, please!

You shouldnt have been so hasty.

Not so hasty.

Don't let us be hasty.

Maybe I was a little hasty when I.

Oh, well, I. wouldn't come to hasty conclusions.

I may have been hasty.

Oh, let's not be too hasty, Mr. Brandon.

I'm afraid I was too hasty.

Don't be hasty.

Don't make any hasty decisions, Mr. Burns.

I was making a hasty departure.

I shouldn't be hasty about this.

Please, Ilsa, don't be hasty.

Sure, we know that. Maybe we were a little hasty.

News and current affairs

Nor is it an answer to demand hasty enactment of legislation in the face of a threat to cause public disorder by starving oneself to death, as Anna Hazare has done.

One can understand why, living in a foreign country they may perceive as hostile, immigrants opt to close themselves off, and some host countries - France, for example -may be too hasty in demanding that immigrants accept new ways of life.

Likewise, when it comes to civil wars in the Middle East, Western restraint is usually a better strategy than hasty military intervention driven by domestic fear.

However hasty these judgments may end up being, it certainly seems that the region's oldest and last political-military organization is, at long last, on the brink of defeat.

Governments, too, are making hasty, wrong-headed decisions that deny consumers a choice.

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority beat a hasty retreat from their moderate and accommodating positions.

Moreover, due to hasty and poorly supervised implementation, waste in infrastructure construction can be serious.