HASTY (hastier, hastiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: hastier    , hastiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hasty mean? 

• HASTY (adjective)
  The adjective HASTY has 2 senses:

1. excessively quick

2. done with very great haste and without due deliberation

  Familiarity information: HASTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASTY (adjective)

Comparative: hastier   
Superlative: hastiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessively quick

Synonyms:

hasty; headlong

Context example:

a headlong rush to sell

Similar:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)

Derivation:

haste (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

hastiness (hasty impulsiveness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Synonyms:

hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous

Context example:

wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

Similar:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)

Derivation:

haste; hastiness (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))

 Context examples 

Next week we are off to Germany and Switzerland, and as we shall travel fast, I shall only be able to give you hasty letters.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Miss Mills had received a hasty note from Dora, telling her that all was discovered, and saying.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Scatcherd is hasty—you must take care not to offend her; Madame Pierrot is not a bad sort of person.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Cherish her, then, whilst you may, for the day will come when every hasty deed or heedless word will come back with its sting to hive in your own heart.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wild man turned back, took him up, set him on his shoulder, and went with hasty steps into the forest.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"'It don't do to be hasty.' Change 'don't' to 'do not,' and it reads, 'It do not do to be hasty,' which is perfectly absurd."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He it was, I know, that carried some of Johnson’s hasty talk to Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The afternoon was far advanced before we were able to snatch a hasty luncheon at a restaurant.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was thinking only of the last half hour, and as they passed to their seats, her mind took a hasty range over it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)