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OVERHASTY

Dictionary entry overview: What does overhasty mean?

• OVERHASTY (adjective)
The adjective OVERHASTY has 1 sense:

1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Familiarity information: OVERHASTY used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OVERHASTY (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Synonyms:

overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous; hasty

Context examples:

hasty marriage seldom proveth well / hasty makeshifts take the place of planning / rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion / wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

Similar:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)

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