hasty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Base: haste
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: hastier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hastiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
pos: adj
examples: Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]
Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.
But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow.
gloss: Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
pos: adj
examples: Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.
[We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble.
gloss: Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
pos: adj
examples: ... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be.
I speke not of hasty pees, for they be sowen before Christmasse
gloss: Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
pos: adj
examples: ... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.
... how is it that ye be so hasty to […] departe hens?
gloss: Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
pos: adj
examples: a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…]
gloss: Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.
Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.
gloss: Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
pos: adj
examples: his hasty temperament
The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…]
... I spake eny hasty worde […]
To say that such a one has rather a hasty temper, or that he is difficult to get on with, or that he is too fond of having his own way, is hardly, in the opinion of many people, to say anything really to his discredit;[…]
gloss: Heavy, violent.
pos: adj
examples: Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]
... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…]
'[…] rain divert me, although it is coming down hasty.'
Related words: haste
hasteful
hasten
hurried
Derived words: beat a hasty retreat
hastily
hastiness
hasty breaching
hasty generalization
hasty pudding
hasty-witted
overhasty
unhasty
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: haastig
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَسَرِّع
roman: mutasarriʕ
lang: Arabic
word: متسربع
roman: metsárbaʕ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tələsik
lang: Bulgarian
word: бърз
roman: bǎrz
lang: Bulgarian
word: прибързан
roman: pribǎrzan
lang: Bulgarian
word: припрян
roman: priprjan
lang: Catalan
word: precipitat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 匆忙
roman: cōngmáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 急忙
roman: jímáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 匆匆
roman: cōngcōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 匆
roman: cōng
lang: Czech
word: unáhlený
lang: Danish
word: forhastet
lang: Dutch
word: haastig
lang: Esperanto
word: hasta
lang: Finnish
word: kiireinen
lang: Finnish
word: hätäinen
lang: Finnish
word: hätiköity
lang: French
word: hâtif
lang: German
word: hastig
lang: German
word: eilig
lang: Hebrew
word: פזיז
roman: paziz
lang: Hindi
word: आतुर
roman: ātur
lang: Hindi
word: अधीर
roman: adhīr
lang: Hindi
word: त्वरित
roman: tvarit
lang: Hungarian
word: hirtelen
lang: Ingrian
word: kiire
lang: Irish
word: araiciseach
lang: Irish
word: mear
lang: Irish
word: tobann
lang: Italian
word: affrettato
lang: Italian
word: frettoloso
lang: Italian
word: precipitoso
lang: Japanese
word: 軽率
roman: keisotsu
lang: Latin
word: festīnus
lang: Latin
word: properus
lang: Macedonian
word: и́збрзан
roman: ízbrzan
lang: Macedonian
word: при́брзан
roman: príbrzan
lang: Malay
word: terburu-buru
lang: Malay
word: tergesa-gesa
lang: Māori
word: pōāritarita
lang: Māori
word: naho
lang: Norman
word: prompt
lang: Polish
word: pośpieszny
lang: Portuguese
word: apressado
lang: Portuguese
word: precipitado
lang: Russian
word: спе́шный
roman: spéšnyj
lang: Russian
word: поспе́шный
roman: pospéšnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cabhagach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: брзоплет
lang: Sindhi
word: اُٻَهِرو
roman: uḇahiro
lang: Slovak
word: unáhlený
lang: Slovak
word: prenáhlený
lang: Spanish
word: apresurado
lang: Spanish
word: de prisa
lang: Spanish
word: arrebatado
lang: Spanish
word: atropellado
lang: Spanish
word: presuroso
lang: Spanish
word: precipitado
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: esi-esi
lang: Swedish
word: förhastad
lang: Swedish
word: hastig
lang: Tày
word: bả
lang: Tày
word: cản
lang: Tày
word: bả biếng
lang: Turkish
word: aceleci
lang: Unami
word: shaelìntàm
lang: Welsh
word: brysiog
lang: Yiddish
word: אײַליק
roman: aylik