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Definition: Hasty |
HastyAdjective1. Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hasty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Hasty \Has"ty\, adjective. [Comparative Hastier; superlative Hastiest.]. (references) |
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Slang in 1811 | HASTY. Precipitate, passionate. He is none of the Hastings sort; a saying of a slow, loitering fellow: an allusion to the Hastings pea, which is the first in season. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: HastySynonyms: headlong (adj), overhasty (adj), precipitant (adj), precipitate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing; Verb: |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
Haste | Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing. |
Instantaneity | Adjective: instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt, discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous, hasty;quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as electricity. |
Irascibility | Hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy; pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, " sudden and quick in quarrel ". |
Misjudgment | Noun: misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception; (error); hasty conclusion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hasty |
| English words defined with "hasty": brashness ♦ casual, Cursorary, cursory ♦ Ejaculatory ♦ Festinate, Fool-hasty ♦ Hastif, hastily, hastiness, headlong, Hot-head, Hot-headed, hurriedly ♦ in haste, In hot water ♦ passing, penitential, perfunctory, Predigestion, premature, previous ♦ Quick with child ♦ Rakel, Rashful, rashly ♦ scratch pad, scratch paper, scribbling block, Slopwork, Stirabout, Subitaneous, Subitany, Supawn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hasty": Abode, Absence ♦ Breakfast ♦ Canoe, Chimney, Cooking Stove ♦ DING DONG, Door Bell ♦ Engagement ♦ Fleet, Fruit ♦ HASTY PUDDING, Horn ♦ Knitting ♦ Letter, Lips ♦ Melon, Mustard ♦ Offense, Organist, Ottoman ♦ Page, Postman ♦ Scarborough Warning, Silver, Sneeze, spot check, Stealing, story ♦ Teasing, Ticks, Trunk, Turquoise ♦ Vehicle. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hasty": Subitany. (references) |
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Screenplays | I see by your hasty retreat that you're still twentieth in line (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar) Hasty conclusion like gunpowder (Charlie Chan in Paris; writing credit: Philip MacDonald; Edward T. Lowe Jr.) Hasty deduction like ancient egg. Look good from outside (Charlie Chan's Secret; writing credit: Robert Ellis; Helen Logan) | |
Lyrics | I won't be hasty, I'll give you a try (Wannabe; performing artist: Spice Girls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hasty But Tasty (1969) The Hasty Hare (1952) A Hasty Hazing (1917) The Hasty Heart (1983) | |
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![]() | Santa Anna declining a hasty plate of soup at Cerro Gordo. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Distinguished military operations with a hasty bowl of soup. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | A Hasty lunch. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Fast; quick; ASAP; abrupt; accelerated; active; agile; alert; animated; breakneck; brief; brisk; cursory; curt; double time; energetic; expeditious; expeditive; express; fleet; flying; get going; harefooted; hasty; headlong; hurried; immediate; impatient. | Deliver; informative; important; urgent; immediate; hasty; notice; notification . | ||
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President Woodrow Wilson | One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat. |
Publilius Syrus | A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. |
Southey | How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. |
William Penn | Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. |
William Shakespeare | Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life to the other's power to be taken away by him, or any one that joins with him in his defence, and espouses his quarrel; it being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction, For by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved, as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a wolf or a lyon; because such men are not under the ties of the commonlaw of reason, have no other rule, but that of force and violence, and so may be treated as beasts of prey, those dangerous and noxious creatures, that will be sure to destroy him whenever he falls into their power. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I should myself have shrunk from any thing so hasty, and she would have felt every scruple of mine with multiplied strength and refinement |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was superficial, hasty, easily angered |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Be not so hasty to confound my meaning |
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Economic History | Togo | Under substantial domestic and foreign pressure and the burden of the general strike, the presidential faction entered negotiations with the opposition in early 1993. Four rounds of talks led to the July 11 Ouagadougou agreement setting forth conditions for upcoming presidential and legislative elections and ending the general strike as of August 3, 1993. The presidential elections were set for August 25, but hasty and inadequate technical preparations, concerns about fraud, and the lack of effective campaign organization by the opposition led the chief opposition candidates--former minister and Organization of African Unity Secretary General Edem Kodjo and lawyer Yawovi Agboyibo--to drop out of the race before election day and to call for a boycott. (references) |
Human Rights | Bahamas | Some local legal professionals and human rights observers believe that this lack of representation risks hasty convictions on the basis of unchallenged evidence, particularly in the case of poor or illiterate defendants. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Some hasty actions of the Congress during the past year--most recently in respect to Angola--were, in my view, very shortsighted. |
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| "Hasty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.42% of the time. "Hasty" is used about 343 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.42% | 341 | 15,501 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.58% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 343 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "hasty" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hasty | Last name | 2,000 | 6,034 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "hasty". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Heshmon | N/A | Biblical | A hasty messenger |
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1. Hasty, AR |
Expressions using "hasty": beat a hasty retreat ♦ hasty attack ♦ hasty breaching ♦ hasty conclusion ♦ hasty crossing ♦ hasty decision ♦ hasty defence ♦ hasty defense ♦ hasty lunch ♦ hasty pudding ♦ hasty temper ♦ hasty trip ♦ hasty visit ♦ hasty words ♦ have a hasty meal ♦ have a hasty temper ♦ too hasty. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hasty": hasty-pudding. | |
Ending with "hasty": over-hasty. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hasty bake | 30 | hasty bake grill | 3 |
hasty | 14 | bake hasty oven | 3 |
award hasty | 13 | james hasty | 3 |
generalization hasty | 10 | hasty vac | 2 |
hasty market | 9 | hasty realty | 2 |
hasty quick | 7 | hasty house pudding | 2 |
hasty pudding | 6 | hasty liquor | 2 |
hasty co | 6 | hasty p | 2 |
fallacy generalization hasty | 6 | hasty street | 2 |
hasty heart | 6 | colorado hasty lake | 2 |
hasty ar | 4 | hasty jason | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hasty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i papeshuar (ill-considered, rash, unconsidered, unthought), i nxituar (cursory, headstrong, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, premature, previous, rash, reckless, slapdash), i ngutur. (various references) | |
Arabic | فاقد الصبر, منجز بعجلة (scratchy), متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), متسرع (headlong, overhasty, precipitate, quick, rash), متعجل (accelerant, fast, hurry, overhasty), سريع الغضب (combustible, crusty, inflammable, irascible, irate, irritable, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, tempestuous, testy, tetchy, ticklish, touchy), سريع (brisk, clipping, express, expressible, fast, feathered, fleet, flier, momentary, nippy, precipitate, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rife, smart, snappy, speed, speedy, swift), طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сприхав (breezy, combustible, high-spirited, hoity toity, hot tempered, hotheaded, irascible, irritable, peppery, petulant, quick tempered, short tempered, snappish, snappy, spicy, testy, violent, waxy), необмислен (blind, crude, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), прибързан (brash, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 草草 (careless), 草 (careless, draft, grass, manuscript, rough, straw), 孟浪 (impetuous, rash), 匆忙 (hurried), 匆 (hurried), "切 (rash), "促 (hurriedly, Hurries, HURRY, rush). (various references) | |
Czech | uspìchaný (bustling, hurried), ukvapený (impetuous, precipitate, precipitous, premature, rash, sudden, unadvised), rychlý (expeditious, fast, flying, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed), prchlivý (choleric, excitable, fiery, hotheaded, irascible), kvapný (hurried), chvatný (hurried), bezhlavý (headless, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Danish | hurtigt gennembrud (hasty breaching), hastig overgang (hasty crossing), improviseret forsvar (hasty defence), improviseret angreb (hasty attack). (various references) | |
Farsi | تند (Caustic, Discourteous, Fast, Glassy, Harsh, Headlong, Heady, Hot, Inflammable, Intensive, Keen, Paregoric, Peppery, Presto, Pungent, Quick, Racy, Rapid, Rash, Slush, Sour, Spicy, Tart, Transient, Violent, Virulent, Wrench, Yare), زودرس (Precocious, Unripe), عجول (Headlong, Madbrained, Rash), شتاب زده , دست پاچه . (various references) | |
Finnish | hätiköity (precipitate, rash), hätäinen (anxious, hurried, impatient), malttamaton (impatient), kiireellinen (pressing, prompt, speedy, urgent), ajattelematon (heedless, inconsiderate, indiscreet, light-headed, thoughtless), äkkinäinen (abrupt, hurried, sudden), äkillinen (abrupt, acute, precipitate, sudden). (various references) | |
French | hâtif, pressé, précipité (hastily), impatient, écervelé (hare-brained, harum scarum). (various references) | |
German | hastig (abrupt, hastily, hurried, precipitant, precipitantly, precipitate, rash, rashly, rushed), eilig (hastily, hurried, hurriedly, precipitate, quick, urgent), eilfertig (zealous), übereilt (precipitate, rash). (various references) | |
Greek | γρήγοροσ (cursory, fast, quick, rapid, swift), βιαστικόσ (cursory, hurried, precipitate, previous, slapdash), βιαστικός (bustling, cursory), εσπευσμένος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבו"ל (frightened, in a hurry, rushed), פזיז (careless, fickle, harebrained, headlong, impetuous, impulsive, nimble, precipitous, rash, slapdash, slaphappy), חפוז (cursory, hurried, precipitant, snap), חפזו י, חטוף (abducted, kidnapped, quick, snatched, sudden, swift), ב"ול (afraid, anxious, excited, rush, urgent, worried), מ"ר (abrupt, impetuous, precipitant, rash, sudden, unadvised, unthinking), חפז (precipitant, rash), ב"ל (afraid, frightened, panic stricken). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hirtelen (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, all of a sudden, bang, bulge, headlong, heady, on a sudden, out of the blue, plump, pop, precocious, presently, raid, rapid, rashly, sharp, short, skedaddle, slap dash, slap-dash, smack, snap, snoring, spasmodic, speedily, sudden, suddenly, to pop out, to pull up, to yaw), sietős (giddy-paced), meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), gyors (agile, current sale, expedite, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift, tantivy), elhamarkodott (impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitant, precipitate, premature). (various references) | |
Indonesian | terburu-buru (dashing, hurried, scurry). (various references) | |
Italian | frettoloso (cursory, flying, hurried). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 拙速 (rough and ready). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せっそく (rough and ready), せっかち (impatient), いそぎ (urgent), けいそつ (careless, excellent soldier, rash, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Korean | 급한. (various references) | |
Manx | tappee (allegro, express, perfunctory, quick, quick-acting, rapid, speedy, swift), siyragh (cursory, expeditious, hastening, hurried, impetuous, passion, prompt, rash), joltee (rash), gaskeydagh (a fast worker, hustler). (various references) | |
Norwegian | hissig, rask (brisk, expeditious, fast, hurried), forhastet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | astyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), temporo, rpido (hurry), precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, imprudent, precipitant, precipitate, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary, unwise), ligeiro (fleet, light, light-footed, light-legged, nimble, quick, ready, speedy), imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), apressado (abrupt, clinking, cursory, hurried, hurry, quick, spanking, sudden, superficial), acelerado (accelerated, quick). (various references) | |
Romanian | zorit (daybreak, daylight, hurriedly, quick), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), timpuriu (early, forward, matutinal, rathe, untimely, youthful), sumar (abstract, compendious, concise, docket, epitome, resume, sketchy, summarily, summary), repede (anon, apace, brisk, briskly, early, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hurried, in the same breath, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rash, smartly, soon, speedy, sudden, swift, swiftly, winged), pripit (beforehand, foolish, hurried, impetuous, previous, quick, rash, rashly, thoughtless), precoce (precocious), nesocotit (harum scarum, ignored, indiscreet, injudicious, scorned, thoughtless, unwise, venturesome, witless), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), grãbit (hurried, hurriedly, quick, rash, rattling, swift, transient), fugar (exile, fleeting, fugitive, rapid, refugee, runaway, Steed), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid). (various references) | |
Russian | поспешный (heady, hurried, hurry, premature, rash, rough and ready, slapdash). (various references) | |
Scottish | grad (irascible, sudden), fuadarach, dian (eager, keen, vehement). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hitan (emergency, exigent, express, fleet, imperative, must, pressing, rush, urgent), užurban (bustling, busy, hurried, hurry), prenagljen (precipitant, premature, snap, temerarious), prenagao (hurried), nagao (hotspur, impetuous, impulsive, precipitant, precipitate, precipitatious, rude, rush, sudden, temerarious), žuran (bustling, hurried, quick, slapping). (various references) | |
Spanish | apresurado (hurried, previous). (various references) | |
Swedish | hastig (abrupt, cursory, double quick, fleet, fleeting, glancing, hurried, quick, rapid, whirlwind). (various references) | |
Thai | รีบเร่ง (hasten, rush). (various references) | |
Turkish | hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), tez (discourse, disquisition, dissertation, expeditious, nimble, prompt, promptly, quick, quickly, thesis, treatise), telaşçı, ivedi (burning, crying, hurry up, hustle, posting, pressing, urgent), düşüncesizce yapılmış (offhand, offhanded, unconsidered, unguarded), aceleci (brash, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, hustler, impatient, impetuous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, slippy), acele (bustle, discomposedly, dispatch, early, expedition, fast, flying, haste, hastily, hotfoot, hurried, hurriedly, hurry, hurry up, in a hurry, in haste, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, press, pressing, quick, rapid, rush, speedy, swift, too previous, urgency, urgent, whirl), çabuk sinirlenen (petulant, prickly, quick tempered, short tempered, swift to anger), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, expeditious, fast, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references) | |
Turkmen | howul-hara (careless, hurried). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleeting, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), необачний (harebrained, hasteful, headlong, hot-brained, ill-advised, imprudent, overbold, over-hasty, precipitant, slap bang, slapdash), запальний (choleric, explosive, fiery, gingery, hard-nosed, heated, hot, hot tempered, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, inflammable, inflammatory, ireful, ornery, passionate, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, spunky, testy), поспішний (hasteful, hurried, ill-judged, precipitate, precipitous, premature, pressing, previous, snap). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vội vã; nhanh chóng, vội v ng (hotfoot, hurried, precipitate), vội (cursory), thiếu suy nghĩ nóng tính, nóng nảy (heady, hot-headed, hot-tempered), mau hấp tấp, khinh suất (hare-brained, harum-scarum, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting), gấp rút, dễ nổi nóng (bad-tempered). (various references) | |
Welsh | prysur (busy, diligent, serious), brysiog (hurried). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | celeres, celerius, festinus, rapidus, repentina, repentino, repentinus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 20 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vidisti hominem velocem ad loquendum stulti magis speranda est quam illius correptio |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Hast thou seen a man swift to speken? folie more is to ben hopid than the correccioun of hym. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Nakakita ba ikaw sa usa ka tawo nga madali-dalion sa iyang mga pulong? Aduna pay paglaum sa usa ka buang kay kaniya. |
| Chinese | 見 言 語 急 躁 的 人 麼 . 愚 昧 人 " 他 更 有 指 望 。 |
| Croatian | Jesi li vidio èovjeka brza na rijeèima? I bezumnik ima više nade nego on. |
| Danish | Ser du en Mand, der er hastig til Tale, for en Tåbe er der snarere Håb end for ham. |
| Dutch | Hebt gij een man gezien, die haastig in zijn woorden is? Van een zot is meer verwachting dan van hem. |
| Finnish | Näet miehen, kärkkään puhumaan - enemmän on toivoa tyhmästä kuin hänestä. |
| French | Si tu vois un homme irréfléchi dans ses paroles, Il y a plus espérer d`un insensé que de lui. |
| German | Siehst du einen, der schnell ist zu reden, da ist am Narren mehr Hoffnung denn an ihm. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Gen plis espwa pou yon moun ki san konprann pase pou yon moun k'ap prese pale san kalkile. |
| Hungarian | Láttál-é beszédeiben hirtelenkedõ embert? a bolond felõl több reménység van, hogynem a felõl! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lebih banyak harapan bagi orang dungu, daripada bagi orang yang berbicara tanpa berpikir dahulu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sudahkah engkau melihat seorang yang terlanjur katanya, maka pada orang bodoh boleh diharap terlebih dari pada akan orang itu. |
| Maori | ¶ Ka kite ranei koe i te tangata kaika ki te korero? engari te wairangi ka totika ake i a ia. |
| Norwegian | Har du sett en mann som forhaster sig i sine ord - det er mere håp for dåren enn for ham. |
| Portuguese | Vês um homem precipitado nas suas palavras? Maior esperança há para o tolo do que para ele. |
| Rumanian | Dacq vezi un om care vorbewte nechibzuit, poyi sq nqdqjduiewti mai mult dela un nebun deckt dela el. - |
| Russian | чЙ"БМ МЙ ФЩ ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ П ТПНЕФЮЙЧПЗП Ч УМПЧБИ УЧПЙИ? ОБ ЗМХ ПЗП 'ПМШЫЕ ОБ"ЕЦ"Щ, ОЕЦЕМЙ ОБ ОЕЗП. |
| Spanish | ¿Has visto a un hombre apresurado en sus palabras? Más esperanza hay del necio que de él. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "hasty": overhasty, unhasty. (additional references) | |
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"Hasty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahst, asty, Chasty, haast, haity, Hamsey, hamty, hanty, harty, hasey, hasity, Haslyn, hasta, hastey, hastly, hasto, hati, hauty, Hawtry, hetty, Hisy, hity, hlast, hotty, Huasta, husty, huty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hasty" (pronounced hā"stē) |
| 4 | -ā" s t ē | tasty. |
| 3 | -s t ē | amnesty, angioplasty, Beastie, bloodthirsty, Christie, Christy, crusty, dishonesty, dusty, dynasty, feisty, frosty, gusty, honesty, lusty, majesty, misty, modesty, musty, nasty, rusty, sixty, testy, thirsty, travesty, trusty, twisty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ashy, hast, hats, hays, shay, stay. | |
-2 letters: ash, ays, has, hat, hay, sat, say, sha, shy, sty, tas, thy, yah. | |
-3 letters: ah, as, at, ay, ha, sh, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: shanty, thuyas, trashy, yachts. | |
+2 letters: ashtray, astheny, bypaths, ghastly, hastily, shantey, snatchy, starchy, swarthy, unhasty. | |
+3 letters: amethyst, ashtrays, athanasy, athodyds, chanteys, chastely, chastity, chayotes, dayshift, hautboys, haylofts, haystack, headstay, heavyset, homestay, hyalites, hydatids, hydrants, hydrates, hysteria, pathways, phantasy, phytanes, scratchy, scyphate, shanteys, shmaltzy, soothsay, stanchly, stealthy, stomachy, sympathy, tachyons, tallyhos, thruways, toadyish, trashily, yachters. | |
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