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hasty adjective [ ˈheɪsti ]

• done with excessive speed or urgency; hurried.
• "a hasty attempt to defuse the situation"
Similar: quick, hurried, fast, swift, rapid, speedy, brisk, hurrying, expeditious, cursory, perfunctory, brief, short, fleeting, passing, flying, transitory, fleet, rathe, rash, impetuous, impulsive, reckless, precipitate, precipitous, incautious, imprudent, spur-of-the-moment, premature, ill-considered, unconsidered, unthinking, ill-advised, ill-judged, injudicious, temerarious,
Opposite: slow, considered,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French hasti, hastif, from haste (see haste).


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