hasty
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪsti/
The English word “hasty” has 8 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
- Made in haste.
- Ripening or coming to maturity early.
- Eager or impatient to act or get something done.
- Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.
- Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
- Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
- Heavy, violent.
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…
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