Word Meanings - HASTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,

Additional info about word: HASTY

Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch. 2. Demanding haste or immediate action. Chaucer. "Hasty employment." Shak. 3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. 4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HASTY)

• Angry
• Wrathful
• irate
• resentful
• ireful
• incensed
• furious
• irascible
• choleric
• moody
• nettled
• touchy
• sullen
• piqued
• excited
• provoked
• raging
• chafed
• hasty
• hot
• exasperated
• indignant
• passionate
• Choleric
• Hasty
• testy
• impetuous
• Cursory
• Rapid
• desultory
• careless
• superficial
• slight
• summary
• Desultory
• Rambling
• discursive
• loose
• unmethodical
• unsettled
• erratic
• inexact
• spasmodic
• fitful
• freakish
• aberrant
• unsystematic
• cursory
• roving
• Premature
• crude
• unauthenticated
• untimely
• precocious
• precipitate
• too early
• rash
• unseasonable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HASTY)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to HASTY)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• INCENSIVE
  Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CORROVAL
  A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.