hasty
/ˈheɪsti/
hasty adjective: acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Adjective
hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)
- 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.
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live...1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print...
- Synonyms:
- brash
- 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)
- [We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble.2013 October 8, Robert F. Jones, Deadville: A Novel, Skyhorse, →ISBN
- 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
- I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse1767, Robert Vansittart, Certain Ancient Tracts Concerning the Management of Landed Property Reprinted, page 14
- 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.]
- ... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens?1882, Sir Sidney L. Lee, The Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeaux,., page 227
- Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
- a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
- ... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…]1839 [?], Thomas Hobbes, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, page 435
- 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
- Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.1861, Alexander Irvine, The Phytologist: A Botanical Journal, page 144
- Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
- his hasty temperament
- The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…]1840, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 321
- 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 […]1862, James Beart SIMONDS, The Rot in Sheep: Its Nature, Cause, Treatment, and Prevention. Illustrated, Etc, page 15
- ... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…]1990, David Golightly Harris, Piedmont Farmer: The Journals of David Golightly Harris, 1855-1870, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 149
Proper noun capitalized: Hasty
Hasty (countable and uncountable, plural Hastys)
hasty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
hasty in Hindi
- acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
- आतुर ātur, अधीर adhīr, त्वरित tvarit
hasty in Tamil
- அவசரமான
hasty in Urdu
- hasty, quick, expeditious
- عجول ajūl
hasty in Bengali
- দ্রুত, তড়িঘড়ি, অবিবেচনাপ্রসূত
More languagesFewer languages
- hasty in Malayalam
- ദ്രുതഗതിയിലുളള, തിടുക്കത്തിൽ ചെയ്ത, പരിഗണനയില്ലാത്ത
- hasty in Gujarati
- ઉતાવળિયું utāvaḷiyũ
- hasty in Odia
- ଚଞ୍ଚଳ cañcaḷa
- hasty in Sanskrit
- त्वरित tvarita
- hasty in Arabic
- مُتَسَرِّع mutasarriʕ
- hasty in Malay
- terburu-buru, tergesa-gesa
- Sindhi
- اُٻَهِرو uḇahiro
Examples of hasty in a sentence
- I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]1756, Royal society of London, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections: Abridged and Disposed Under General Heads, page 627:
- Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
- But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- '[…] rain divert me, although it is coming down hasty.'2020 August 20, Evie Grace, The Golden Maid, Random House, →ISBN:
Synonyms of hasty
Forms of hasty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | hastier |
| superlative | hastiest |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hastys |
| alternative form | Hastey |
| alternative form | Hastie |
Origin of hasty
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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Questions about hasty
- What does hasty mean?
- Hasty means acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- What is hasty in Hindi?
- Hasty in Hindi is आतुर (ātur), अधीर (adhīr), त्वरित (tvarit). See Hasty meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hasty in a sentence?
- I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]
- What part of speech is hasty?
- Hasty can be an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hasty?
- Hasty is pronounced /ˈheɪsti/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hasty (page history and authors); Hasty (page history and authors); hasty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); عجول (Urdu) (page history and authors); Hasty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hasty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ઉતાવળિયું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଚଞ୍ଚଳ (Odia) (page history and authors); त्वरित (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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