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OVERHASTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overhasty mean?
• OVERHASTY (adjective)
The adjective OVERHASTY has 1 sense:
1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Familiarity information: OVERHASTY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: overhastier
Superlative: overhastiest
Superlative: overhastiest
Sense 1
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)
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