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3 definitions found 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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