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Hasty
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- 1 Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
"Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it."
- 2 Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.; Made in haste.
"Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June."
- 3 Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.; Ripening or coming to maturity early.
"... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be."
- 4 Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.; Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
"... the Queene is not so hasty of your death."
- 5 Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.; Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
"a hasty decision, a hasty assertion"
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- 6 Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time). archaic
"This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche."
- 7 Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
"his hasty temperament"
- 8 Heavy, violent.
"Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]"
- 1 excessively quick wordnet
- 2 done with very great haste and without due deliberation wordnet
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 A census-designated place in Bent County, Colorado, United States. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
Two main origins: * From a pet form of the Norman personal name Asketin, derived from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss (“god”) and ketill (“sacrificial cauldron”). * From Middle English hasty (“quick, speedy”), a nickname for a brisk or impetuous person, or possibly for a messenger.
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