Definition of hasty

"hasty" in the adjective sense

1. hasty, headlong

excessively quick

"made a hasty exit"

"a headlong rush to sell"

2. hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous

done with very great haste and without due deliberation

"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare

"hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes

"rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"

"wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"

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Quotations for hasty

Youth is too hasty with words. [ Schiller ]

Be not hasty to outbid another. [ Proverb ]

Hasty glory goes out in a snuff. [ Proverb ]

Hasty climbers have sudden falls. [ Proverb ]

Repentance follows hasty counsels. [ Syrus ]

Hasty gamesters oversee themselves. [ Proverb ]

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hasty resolutions seldom speed well. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. [ Joanna Baillie ]

That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,
And straight is cold again. [ Jul. Caes ]

Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]

I was too hasty to condemn unheard; and you perhaps too prompt in your replies. [ Dryden ]

As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over-night, and was hanged the next morning. [ Proverb ]

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems! [ Southey ]

Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands. [ Dryden ]

Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult and in the issue disastrous. [ Livy ]

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware. [ Lavater ]

We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away; but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

hasty in Scrabble®

The word hasty is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

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hasty in Words With Friends™

The word hasty is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words within the letters of hasty

2 letter words in hasty (7 words)

3 letter words in hasty (11 words)

4 letter words in hasty (4 words)

5 letter words in hasty (1 word)

hasty + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence hasty

Words that start with hasty (1 word)

Words with hasty in them (1 word)

Words that end with hasty (2 words)

Word Growth involving hasty

Shorter words in hasty

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Longer words containing hasty

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