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Definition of Hasty

Hasty

  1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
  2. Demanding haste or immediate action.
  3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
  4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
  5. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
  6. Forward; early; first ripe.

Hasty Quotations

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
Robert Plant

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Will Durant

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Publilius Syrus
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Hasty Translations

hasty in German is eilfertig, hastig, eilig
hasty in Italian is frettoloso
hasty in Latin is festinus
hasty in Norwegian is rask, forhastet, hissig
hasty in Spanish is apresurado

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