adjective (hastier, hastiest)
1 said, made or done very quickly, especially when this has bad results:
a hasty departure / meal / farewell * The army beat a hasty retreat. * Let's not make any hasty decisions. * She regretted her hasty words the moment she'd spoken.
2 ~ in doing sth (of a person) acting or deciding too quickly, without enough thought:
Perhaps I was too hasty in rejecting his offer.
IDIOMS see BEATv.
hastily adverb:
Perhaps I spoke too hastily. * She hastily changed the subject.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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