hasty

adj

1. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   “Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.”

   “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.”

   “I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   “Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.”

   “[We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble.”

3. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   “... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be.”

   “I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse”

4. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   “... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.”

   “... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens?”

5. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   “a hasty decision, a hasty assertion”

   “... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…]”

6. (archaic)Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).

   “This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.”

   “Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.”

7. Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.

   “his hasty temperament”

   “The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…]”

   “... I spake eny hasty worde […]”

   “To say that such a one has rather a hasty temper, or that he is difficult to get on with, or that he is too fond of having his own way, is hardly, in the opinion of many people, to say anything really to his discredit;[…]”

8. Heavy, violent.

   “Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]”

   “... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…]”

   “'[…] rain divert me, although it is coming down hasty.'”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.
3. (countable, uncountable)A census-designated place in Bent County, Colorado, United States.