hasty
Collocations
5ADJ.
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VERB + HASTY
ate, bit, don't, draw, let's, made, make, making
HASTY + NOUN
breakfast, conclusion, conclusions, decision, decisions, lunch, marriage, meal
PREP.
about, from, in
ADV.
always, seldom
Definitions
adj
Acting 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.
If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.
[We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be.
I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.
... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens?
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…]
name
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.
A census-designated place in Bent County, Colorado, United States.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — excessively quick
adjective — done with very great haste and without due deliberation
- overhasty
- precipitate
- precipitant
- precipitous
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
WiktionaryIf there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with
WiktionaryI have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]
WiktionaryThere is no need to draw a hasty conclusion.
Tatoeba · #19718Being a hasty person, he is likely to jump to conclusions.
Tatoeba · #66981Hasty marriage seldom succeeds.
Tatoeba · #66987