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overhasty

overhasty adjective: too hasty.

Adjective

overhasty (not comparable)

  1. Too hasty.
    • I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.
    • He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.1836, Medico-Chirurgical Review, Richard & George S. Wood, page 64

overhasty meaning in Sanskrit

overhasty in Sanskrit

overhasty, precipitate, rash
साहस sāhasa

Examples of overhasty in a sentence

  • "Sir Julien de Montessy, he at length said, " I may have been overhasty in my judgment, suspend your's for awhile ; — there be no book in whatever tongue so hard to read as a woman's heart !1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress, Edward Bull, pages 137-138:
  • We must not be overhasty in condemning those, who made an earnest plea for the educational rights of women.1910, Good Housekeeping Magazine 1910-09: Volume 51, Issue 3, Hearst Magazines, page 257:

Origin of overhasty

From over- + hasty.

Words formed from overhasty

Questions about overhasty

What does overhasty mean?
Overhasty means too hasty.
What is overhasty in Sanskrit?
Overhasty in Sanskrit is साहस (sāhasa). See Overhasty meaning in Sanskrit.
How do you use overhasty in a sentence?
"Sir Julien de Montessy, he at length said, " I may have been overhasty in my judgment, suspend your's for awhile ; — there be no book in whatever tongue so hard to read as a woman's heart !
What part of speech is overhasty?
Overhasty is an adjective.

Words near overhasty in the dictionary

  1. overhaste
  2. overhasten
  3. overhastened
  4. overhastily
  5. overhastiness
  6. overhasty
  7. overhate
  8. overhated
  9. overhates
  10. overhating
  11. overhatted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overhasty (page history and authors); साहस (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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