online medical dictionary | definition of hasty

1. Involving haste; done, made, etc, in haste; as, a hasty sketch.

2. Demanding haste or immediate action. "Hasty employment."

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.

5.

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)

Origin: Akin to D. Haastig, G, Sw, & Dan. Hastig. See Haste.

(01 Mar 1998)