## Meanings
1. Done quickly and without enough thought or care.
2. Done very fast because there is little time.
3. Quickly becoming angry; easily irritated.

## Examples
- They made a hasty decision and later regretted it.
- She gave a hasty reply and ran out the door.
- His hasty temper made him hard to work with.

## Derived Forms
- hastily
- hastiness
- hasty-witted
- overhasty
- unhasty

## Related Forms
- haste
- hasteful
- hasten
- hurried

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: hasty
- Root: hastif
- Root: *haifst

## Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.

## AI Etymology
Hasty comes from Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin. In current use, the main senses are “Done quickly and without enough thought or care” and “Done very fast because there is little time”.

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