Entry Word: hasty

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 acting or done with excessive or careless speed <Anna later regretted her hasty decision to sell her car>

Synonyms cursory, flying, headlong, hurried, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed

Related Words breakneck, breathtaking; headstrong, heady, hotheaded, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, reckless, unadvised; quick, rapid, speedy, swift; impromptu, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, slap-dash, snap, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment; abrupt, sudden

Near Antonyms calculated, calculating, measured; circumspect, foresighted, forethoughtful; drawn-out, extended, long-term, prolonged; faltering, hesitant, hesitating, tentative; dallying, dawdling, laggard, leisurely, poky (or pokey), shilly-shallying, slow

Antonyms deliberate, unhurried

2 moving, proceeding, or acting with great speed <we all wish our sick friend a hasty recovery> — see fast 1