hasty
/ˈheɪsti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it."
- "If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is."
- "I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]"
- "Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret."
- "But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow."
- "Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June."
Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.
Inflected Forms
hastier (comparative)
hastiest (superlative)
Hastys (plural)
Hastey (alternative)
Hastie (alternative)