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HASTY
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Irregular inflected forms: hastier , hastiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively quick
Example:
a headlong rush to sell
Synonyms:
hasty; headlong
Classified under:
Similar:
hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)
Derivation:
haste (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))
hastiness (hasty impulsiveness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Example:
wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
Synonyms:
hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous
Classified under:
Similar:
hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)
Derivation:
haste; hastiness (overly eager speed (and possible carelessness))
Context examples:
With a hasty exclamation of Misery, and a sign to her sister not to follow her, she directly got up and hurried out of the room.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
As for Mr. Elton, his manners did not appear—but no, she would not permit a hasty or a witty word from herself about his manners.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Not so hasty, if you please.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It had been, as he before presumed, too hasty a measure on Crawford's side, and time must be given to make the idea first familiar, and then agreeable to her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A hasty drawing back always resulted, accompanied by angry yelps and frightened snarls when a well-aimed brand struck and scorched a too daring animal.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was twenty past three when we reached our terminus, and after a hasty luncheon at the buffet we pushed on at once to Scotland Yard.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having then reached my normal state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger; so making a hasty toilet, I went into the other room.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Laurie sat turning the little ring on his finger, and Amy put the last touches to the hasty sketch she had been working at while she talked.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It disappeared in his glove; and, with one hasty nod and "good-afternoon," he vanished.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On her motioning Yes, with the same hasty gesture as before, I stopped an empty coach that was coming by, and we got into it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
