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Synonyms for hasty

Adjective

1. hasty, headlong, hurried (vs. unhurried)
usage: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
2. hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous, hurried (vs. unhurried)
usage: 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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