hasty

Words with a similar base: hasty, overhasty

'hasty'

[hasty.s.01] as in: excessively quick

Examples:
made a hasty exit
a headlong rush to sell

'hasty'

[hasty.s.02] as in: done with very great haste and without due deliberation; - Shakespeare; - Arthur Geddes

Examples:
hasty marriage seldom proveth well
hasty makeshifts take the place of planning
rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

Origins

					hasty (English)
└── hastif (Old French (842-ca. 1400))

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