hasty

hasty is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
2. noun. Demanding haste or immediate action.
3. noun. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
4. noun. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
5. noun. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
6. noun. Forward; early; first ripe.
7. adjective. excessively quick

   "made a hasty exit"

   "a headlong rush to sell"

   Synonyms: headlong

8. adjective. done with very great haste and without due deliberation- Shakespeare- Arthur Geddes

   "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"

   "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"

   Synonyms: overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous

Synonyms

headlong, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hasty:

yasht

Common word forms

hastier, hastily, hastiest

Words from these letters

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