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Definition: Overhasty |
OverhastyAdjective1. 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 "overhasty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: OverhastySynonyms: hasty (adj), precipitant (adj), precipitate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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 ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Overhasty |
| English words defined with "overhasty": hasty ♦ precipitant, precipitate. (references) |
| "Overhasty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Overhasty" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "overhasty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متسرع (hasty, headlong, precipitate, quick, rash), متعجل (accelerant, fast, hasty, hurry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ennenaikainen (premature, untimely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | très précipité, hâtif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | übereilter, übereilig (precipitative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overhastyay precipitat (hastily, hurried, impetuous, precipitate), prea grãbit. (various references) förhastad (blindfolded, hasty, heady, improvident, previous, rash, snap), överilad (precipitant, precipitate, rash). (various references) quá vội v ng, hấp tấp (hurried, rash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "overhasty" (pronounced 'O"ver*has"ty'): Batty, BEAUTY, Betty, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Butty, Canty, Catty, Clotty, Cosurety, County, Cutty, Cytty, Duty, Flitty, Fouty, frailty, Fretty, Genty, gritty, Hasty, haughty, jaunty, kitty, knotty, Mitty, Motty, Musty, Nasty, Natty, Naughty, Netty, Nonsurety, nutty, Overempty, Patty, Pentecosty, Petty, Planxty, -plasty, Rafty, Reasty, safety, Shinty, Skilty, Skitty, smutty, snotty, spotty. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-1 letter: overstay. | |
-2 letters: earshot, harvest, thraves. | |
-3 letters: ahorse, ashore, averts, avoset, earths, earthy, estray, haters, havers, hayers, hearts, hearty, hoarse, horsey, horste, hovers, oaters, orates, others, oyster, reshot, savory, shaver, shorty, shover, shrove, starve, stayer, storey, stover, strove, theory, thrave, throes, throve, thyrse, torahs, toyers, trashy, traves, troves, vaster, vestry, votary, voters, yarest. | |
-4 letters: arose. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 68 61 73 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .... .- ... - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r h a s t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0068 0061 0073 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498871847467858691 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, arabic, arabisk, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandezã, finsk, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, fransk, franska |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, saksalainen, allemand, neamţ, tysk, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, român, rumänsk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svensk, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnames, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, englezesc, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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