Hasty

a.	1.	Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; 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. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him. - Prov. xxix. 20. The hasty multitude Admiring entered. - Milton. Be not hasty to go out of his sight. - Eccl. viii. 3.
	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. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. - Shak.
	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" Synonyms: overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous

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