hastier

Adjective

hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)

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.

   Synonyms:

   brash

   1. Made in haste.
      • Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.1577, B. Googe, Herebach's Husb., IV, page 184 (quoted in the NED)
   2. 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.1826 [1626], Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Containing Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history, In ten centuries, page 209
   3. Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
      • ... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.1877 [????], No-body, No-body and some-body [a comedy. supplied in MS.]
   4. Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
      • a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
2. (archaic) Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
   • This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.1895 [1511], Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Sebastian Münster, The First Three English Books on America, Westminster : A. Constable

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