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hasty

adj
/ˈheɪsti/

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.

  1. derived from *haifst✻ — “violence”
  2. derived from hastif
  3. inherited from hasty

Definitions

  1. Acting or done in haste

    Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

    • Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
    • 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[…]

  2. Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).

    • This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.
    • Thys wolfbayne of all poysones is the most hastye poison.

  3. Irritable, irascible

    Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.

    • his hasty temperament
    • The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…]
    • ... I spake eny hasty worde […]
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Heavy, violent.

      • 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.'

    2. A surname.

    3. An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.

    4. A census-designated place in Bent County, Colorado, United States.

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Derived

beat a hasty retreat, hastily, hastiness, hasty breaching, hasty generalization, hasty pudding, hasty-witted, overhasty, unhasty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hasty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hasty02anger03yell04emotions05emotion06sensory07impulses08impulse09sudden

A definitional loop anchored at hasty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at hasty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA