hasty

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Done quickly and without enough thought or care.

   They made a hasty decision and later regretted it.

2. 2
   adj

   Done very fast because there is little time.

   She gave a hasty reply and ran out the door.

3. 3
   adj

   Quickly becoming angry; easily irritated.

   His hasty temper made him hard to work with.

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.

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