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overhasty |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- {O"ver*has"ti*ly}, adv -- {O`ver*has"ti*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: overhasty adj : 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: {hasty}, {precipitate}, {precipitant}]
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