Hasty /(hās"ty̆)/

Has·ty

Hasty

a.
  1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.
  2. Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.]
  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.
    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.
  6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.]