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hasty

adjective

excessively quick

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Word Facts

Word length
5
Starts with
H
Ends with
Y
Contains
AS
Scrabble score
11
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Pronunciation

ˈheɪsti

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Definitions

adjective

  1. excessively quick

    “made a hasty exit”

adjective

  1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation

    “{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'hasty marriage seldom proveth well'}”

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Example Sentences

made a hasty exit
a headlong rush to sell
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'hasty marriage seldom proveth well'}
{'source': 'Arthur Geddes', 'text': 'hasty makeshifts take the place of planning'}
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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