hasty meaning and definition

HASTY adjective

Definition of hasty (adjective)

1. excessively quick
   • "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
   • synonyms: headlong
2. 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