Overhasty

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a.
     Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- {O"ver*has"ti*ly}, adv. --
     {O`ver*has"ti*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]