Crossword clues for hasty
hasty
- Impulsive
- Quick - reckless
- Reckless bears, totally without heart
- Type of pudding
- Too quick
- Not carefully considered
- Quick — reckless
- Like many bad decisions
- Like Harvard's pudding
- Decisions, sometimes
- Carelessly quick
- Too quick to act
- Too fast
- Quicker than is prudent
- Premature, as a decision
- Insufficiently considered
- Impetuous, like a decision
- Excessively quick
- Cursory
- Rash
- Not well-thought-out, like a decision
- Like many a retreat
- Hurried, as decisions
- Like some retreats
- Precipitate
- Rushed, as a decision
- Overly quick
- Like some pudding and retreats
- Quickly made, as a decision
- Done in a rush
- Done quickly
- ___ pudding (cornmeal mush)
- Overquick
- Kind of pudding
- Harvard's ___ Pudding Club
- Like Harvard's "Pudding"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "speedy, quick," by 1500s replacing or nativizing earlier hastif (c.1300) "eager, impetuous," from Old French hastif "speedy, rapid; forward, advanced; rash, impetuous" (12c., Modern French hâtif), from haste (see haste). Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (the sense in hasty pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "rash" is from early 15c. Related: Hastiness. Old French also had a form hasti (for loss of terminal -f, compare joli/jolif, etc.), which may have influenced the form of the English word.\n\nThe termination was doubtless from the first identified with native -i, -y, from OE -ig; and it is noticeable that the other Teutonic langs. have formed corresponding adjs. of that type: Du. haastig, Ger., Da., Sw. hastig.
[OED]
Wiktionary
a. Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Hasty may refer to:
- Hasty, Colorado, United States
- HMS Hasty (1894), a Charger class destroyer
- HMS Hasty (H24), an H-class destroyer
- Hasty (racehorse), an unconsidered competitor who finished fifth in the 1840 Grand National
Usage examples of "hasty".
With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.
A series of loud crashes from behind it quickly followed as Alec and Wethis beat a hasty retreat.
Lynn Flewelling Stopping just long enough for a bath and a hasty meal, Seregil and Alec were ready to move on by noon.
Essex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favor, and restored the other officers to then commands.
And big as these shops were, they were growing bigger, spreading over a third block, where two new structures were mushrooming to completion in some hasty cement process of a stability not over-reassuring.
A succession of hasty directions to the leading cabman, one of the most docile of men, ended in the performance of a marvellous piece of jugglery with the big trunk, which he first balanced for an infinitesimal period of time on his nose, and then caught with his big toe.
Cordiani, who felt uneasy, came to inquire from me what my intentions were, but I rushed towards him with an open penknife in my hand, and he beat a hasty retreat.
The way-stew was nothing to brag about, but the vapors did wonders to clear her head, so that she felt reasonably alert when she helped herself to the last of the cauf and began to repack her hasty camp.
Nevertheless, not wishing to be too hasty in his conclusions, he answered very civilly that he had drunk enough already, and that more would only heat his blood.
Your hasty judgments stay, Until the topmost cyme Have crowned the last entablature of Time.
Catching the squirming cat just as it would have leaped for freedom, Caroline swung around to discover the dominie not a dozen paces away, stopped in his tracks by her hasty words.
Conservative school of critics, and was anxious to guard against hasty emendations of the text, however plausible.
With hasty feet I rushed down the hall out into the cool, sweet air of the planet morning.
Precisely a hasty, giftless mediocrity, and I took over the conversation by force in the most giftless way.
They took us further and yet further into the margins of the forest, which, no hasty gulper, swallowed us up at its primeval leisure.