Definitions for Hasty

Hasty hast·y

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IPA: /ˈheɪ sti/

Hasty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in Hasty (ahsty).

Definitions for Hasty

adjective

  1. moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.
  2. made or done with haste or speed:
  3. unduly quick; precipitate; rash:
  4. brief; fleeting; slight; superficial:
  5. impatient; impetuous; thoughtless; injudicious:
  6. easily irritated or angered; irascible:

Origin of Hasty

1300-50; Middle English Middle French hasti, hastif; see haste, -ive

Examples for Hasty

Benjamin Franklin warned against making any hasty conclusions on such “a point of great importance.”

This course of action is what the Constitution envisions and also slows down the hasty rush to war.

She sat down, wrote a hasty line, sealed, and gave it to Morton.

On a wall in hasty letters: “The rich kids have better gas masks, we are jealous.”

Grace was in the middle of a hasty toilet when a knock sounded on the door.

I was no sooner out of this difficulty, than a hasty temper got me into another.

The loss of their leader so disheartened them that they made a hasty retreat.

Haddad flew back immediately to find his city rising up, and is now beating a hasty retreat on the bus-fare increase.

But the thrill was already gone when Fox rushed out a hasty follow-up later that year, The Next Joe Millionaire.

He is very severe against me indeed, and yet I hope I have not been hasty in my judgment of her.

Word Value for Hasty
Scrable

11

Words with friends

9

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