Found 2 items, similar to hastier.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hastier hastier See hasty hasty adj 1: excessively quick; “made a hasty exit”; “a headlong rush to sell” [syn: headlong] 2: done with very great haste and without due deliberation; “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” [syn: overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous] [also: hastiest, hastier]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hastier Hasty \Has"ty\ (h[=a]s"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Hastier (-t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Hastiest.] [Akin to D. haastig, G., Sw., & Dan. hastig. See Haste, n.] 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch. [1913 Webster] 2. Demanding haste or immediate action. [R.] --Chaucer. “Hasty employment.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. [1913 Webster] Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him. --Prov. xxix. 20. [1913 Webster] The hasty multitude Admiring entered. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Be not hasty to go out of his sight. --Eccl. viii. 3. [1913 Webster] 4. Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution. [1913 Webster] 5. Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. [1913 Webster] Take no unkindness of his hasty words. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Forward; early; first ripe. [Obs.] “As the hasty fruit before the summer.” --Is. xxviii. 4. [1913 Webster]