adjective
- Excessively quick.
- usage: "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
- synonyms: headlong
- Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
- usage: "hasty marriage seldom proveth well- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- synonyms: overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous
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