overhasty Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite done with very great haste and without due deliberation
hasty; precipitate; precipitant; precipitous.
- 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
WordNet
O"ver*has"ty adjective
Definitions
Too hasty; precipitate; rash. --O"ver*has"ti*ly adv. --O`ver*has"ti*ness , n.
