hasty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   excessively quick

   made a hasty exit

2. 2
   adj

   done with very great haste and without due deliberation

   hasty marriage seldom proveth well- Shakespeare

3. 3
   adj

   Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.

4. 4
   adj

   Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).

   This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.

5. 5
   adj

   Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.

   his hasty temperament

6. 6
   adj

   Heavy, violent.

   Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]

7. 7
   name

   A surname.

8. 8
   name

   An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.

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.