What is "hastiest"

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.]

1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.

2. 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 hasty multitude Admiring 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.
   --Shak.

6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] ``As the hasty fruit before the summer.''
   --Is. xxviii. 4.

a. (en-superlativehasty)

See hasty

1. adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: headlong]

2. 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]

3. [also: hastiest, hastier]