hasty
adjective
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”
Origin
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
Phrases
- beat a hasty retreat
- hasty breaching
- hasty generalization
- hasty pudding
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