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Look up: Hasty

  1. hasty
    [adj] - done with very great haste and without due deliberation 2. [adj] - excessively quick
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. hasty
    in land operations,an attack in which preparation time is traded for speed in order to exploit an opportunity Category: Defense • a defence normally organized while in contact with the enemy or when contact is imminent and time available for the organization is limited.It is characterized by improvement of the natural defensive strength of the terrain by utilization of foxholes,emplace...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Hasty
    Has'ty (hās'tȳ) adjective [ Compar. Hastier (-tĭ*ẽr); superl. Hastiest .] [ Akin to Dutch haastig , G., Swedish , & Danish hastig . See Haste , noun ] 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/17

  4. hasty
    1. Involving haste; done, made, etc, in haste; as, a hasty sketch. ... 2. Demanding haste or immediate action. 'Hasty employment.' ... 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, ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. hasty
    adjective excessively quick; `made a hasty exit`; `a headlong rush to sell`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. hasty
    precipitate adjective 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Hasty
    • (n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. • (n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. • (n.) Forward; early; first ripe. • (n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclus...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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