hasty /ˈheɪsti/ adjective8 •Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. •Made in haste.Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June. — 1577 •Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate.... to give too hasty belief to pretended miracles,[…] — 1839 •Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.The natural disposition of Theodosius was hasty and choleric;[…] — 1840 •Eager or impatient to act or get something done.... the Queene is not so hasty of your death. — 1877 •Heavy, violent.... hasty rain. When we came home we found Cousin Gwinn Harris and wife at our home. In the evening there was still another rain. These rains are all alike (hard and hasty).[…] — 1990 •Ripening or coming to maturity early.... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be. — 1826 •(no longer used) Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche. — 1895 formshastier · hastiest