Definition of "hasty" in English

adjective

1. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

   • 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.

2. (archaic) Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).

3. Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.

   • his hasty temperament

4. (of rain) Heavy, violent.