Definition of HASTY

hasty

Adjective Satellite

  • excessively quick
    • "made a hasty exit"
  • done with very great haste and without due deliberation; - Shakespeare; - Arthur Geddes
    • "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"
    • "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"
    • "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"

Adj

  • Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick

Adjective

  • Done or made with excessive speed and without careful consideration.

Examples

  • His HASTY decision to challenge the word proved costly, losing him a turn.
  • Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Scrabble Score: 11

hasty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
hasty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hasty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

hasty: valid Words With Friends Word