hasty
Acting or done in hasteActing or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
» I ate a hasty lunch.
Ich aß hastig das Mittagessen.
Я наскоро пообедал.
Я швидко поснідав.
Я пообідав нашвидкоруч.
Meaning
8 sensesActing or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Made in haste.
Ripening or coming to maturity early.
Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
his hasty temperament
Heavy, violent.
(archaic)Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
Examples
39 sentencesI ate a hasty lunch.
Я швидко поснідав.
ruЯ наскоро пообедал.
deIch aß hastig das Mittagessen.
Let's not make any hasty decisions.
We don't want to do anything hasty.
I had a hasty breakfast and left home.
ruЯ наспех позавтракал и вышел из дома.
deIch frühstückte eilig und ging dann aus dem Haus.
Let's not be hasty.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equFrom Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
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Forms
hastier, hastiestSynonyms
6 synonyms- excessively quick:headlong
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation:overhastyprecipitateprecipitantprecipitous
Word family
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