hasty
pronunciation
How to pronounce hasty in British English:
UK [ˈheɪsti]
How to pronounce hasty in American English:
US [ˈheɪsti]
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- Adjective:
- excessively quick
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
Word Origin
- hasty (adj.)
- mid-14c., "early; demanding haste, urgent; quick-tempered, angry;" late 14c. "speedy, swift, quick," by 1500s, from haste (n.) + -y (2); 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 (n.)). Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (this is the sense in hasty-pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "eager, 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.
Example
- 1. Such a conclusion would be hasty indeed .
- 2. Nobody could accuse the generals who run myanmar of making hasty reforms .
- 3. His operating skills were hasty and slipshod , and his patients frequently suffered complications .
- 4. Can our country really bind its future to this fragile and hasty opinion ...... ?
- 5. Clerics in saudi arabia questioned whether the hasty burial at sea really followed islamic law and customs .