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Webster 1913 Edition
Hasty
Has′ty
(hās′ty̆)
, Adj.
[
Com
par.
Hastier
(-tĭ-ẽr)
; sup
erl.
Hastiest
.] 1.
Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste;
as, a
. hasty
retreat; a hasty
sketch2.
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.
Seest thou a man that is
hasty
in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov. xxix. 20.
The
Admiring entered.
hasty
multitudeAdmiring entered.
Milton.
Be not
hasty
to go out of his sight. Eccl. viii. 3.
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. Shakespeare
6.
Forward; early; first ripe.
[Obs.]
“As the hasty fruit before the summer.” Is. xxviii. 4.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hasty
HASTY
,Adj.
Be not hasty to go out of his sight. Eccles.8.
1.
Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words?
There is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov.29.
2.
Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate. He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Prov.14.
3.
Early ripe; forward; as hasty fruit. Is.28.Definition 2024
hasty
hasty
English
Adjective
hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)
- Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick.
- Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
- 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:
- If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
- Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.
- 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.
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acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
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