資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hasty \Has"ty\, a. [Compar. {Hastier}; superl. {Hastiest}.]
[Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See {Haste}, n.]
1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty
sketch.
2. Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.] --Chaucer.
``Hasty employment.'' --Shak.
3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying;
hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash;
easily excited; eager.
4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a
hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty
resolution.
5. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words. --Shak.
6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] ``As the hasty fruit
before the summer.'' --Is. xxviii. 4.
資料來源 : WordNet®
hastiest
See {hasty}
hasty
adj 1: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to
sell" [syn: {headlong}]
2: 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" [syn: {overhasty}, {precipitate},
{precipitant}, {precipitous}]
[also: {hastiest}, {hastier}]