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overhasty

overhasty

1 7.2
Too quick to decide without enough thought
  • adjective
  • /ˌoʊvərˈheɪsti/
translation icon : precipitado
  • His father's death, and our overhasty marriage.

Examples

  • I realized I was being too overhasty with my decision, so I decided to think it through again.

  • Perhaps I am a little overhasty in the mornings.

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

  • I was clumsy, overhasty, cowardly, with almost no poise.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Making overhasty judgments can lead to misunderstandings and mistakes in communication.

  • He often acts overhasty when presented with exciting news, which sometimes leads to errors.

Synonyms

hasty
vsoverhasty
63 3.9

Acting quickly without much thought or care

is about doing things too quickly with a stronger sense of excess
precipitous
vsoverhasty
3 7.9

Happening suddenly without careful thought and often causing problems

is about acting too quickly and stresses excess rather than suddenness
precipitate
vsoverhasty
  • Formal
7.6

Done too quickly without careful thought

is about acting too quickly with even greater lack of thought

Antonyms

deliberate
21 4.6

Slow and careful in movement or speech

How Hasty

reckless
193 3.6
rash
3 4.3
overhasty
1 7.2
hasty
63 3.9
hurried
3.4

Surface Forms

overhasty positive

Morphology

overhasty = hasty (transparent) = over + hasty

Formed by the productive prefix 'over-' meaning 'excessively' attached to the known adjective 'hasty', so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word overhasty combines over- ('too much') and haste ('speed' or 'hurry'). So, overhasty describes doing something 'too quickly' and without enough thought.