a. | 1. | Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; |
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; | |
5. | Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. | |
6. | Forward; early; first ripe. |
Adj. | 1. | hasty - excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" Synonyms: headlong |
2. | hasty - done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king" |