Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a.
Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
overhasty
adj : 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" [syn: hasty,
precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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