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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hasty \Has"ty\, a. [Compar. {Hastier}; superl. {Hastiest}.]
[Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See {Haste}, n.]
1. Involving haste; done made etc., in haste; as a hasty
sketch.
2. Demanding haste or immediate action [R.] --Chaucer.
``Hasty employment.'' --Shak.
3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying;
hence acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash;
easily excited; eager.
4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as a
hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty
resolution.
5. Proceeding from or indicating, a quick temper.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words --Shak.
6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] ``As the hasty fruit
before the summer.'' --Is. xxviii. 4.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
hasty
adj 1: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to
sell" [syn: {headlong}]
2: done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
"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" [syn: {overhasty}, {precipitate},
{precipitant}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Hasty, AR
Zip code(s): 72640
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