Crossword clues for hastier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hasty \Has"ty\ (h[=a]s"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Hastier (-t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Hastiest.] [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.]
Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.
Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.]
--Chaucer. ``Hasty employment.''
--Shak.-
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 hasty multitude Admiring entered.
--Milton.Be not hasty to go out of his sight.
--Eccl. viii. 3. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
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Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
--Shak. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] ``As the hasty fruit before the summer.''
--Is. xxviii. 4.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparativehasty)
WordNet
See hasty
adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: headlong]
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, precipitous]
Usage examples of "hastier".
Soto suggested going back a few caves, since the last ones checked might have had a hastier scrutiny than earlier ones when they started.
The hasty job done on the locking mechanism meant a hastier job done on the opening system.
The musical was to span ten years, taking the leads from a youthful infatuation into a hasty marriage and hastier divorce and ultimately to a mature, fulfilled relationship.