Hasty
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hasty¹
- /ˈheɪsti/
Rhymes with -eɪsti
Where it comes from
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.
adjective hastier · hastiest
- 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.
- Made in haste. Sommer Hony, or hasty hony, made in thirty dales after the tenth of June.
- Ripening or coming to maturity early. ... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be.
- Eager or impatient to act or get something done. ... the Queene is not so hasty of your death.
- Characterized by undue quickness of action, and thus lacking careful thought or consideration; rash, precipitate. a hasty decision, a hasty assertion
- Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time). This people hathe a swyfte hasty speche.
- Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger. his hasty temperament
- Heavy, violent. Hasty rain liberates flukes' eggs from sheep's droppings, and splashes them round about upon the circumjacent herbage; but healthy sheep, protected by their nose, are in little danger here of swallowing these eggs […]
Hasty²
Where it comes from
Two main origins:
* From a pet form of the Norman personal name Asketin, derived from Old Norse Ásketill, composed of the elements áss (“god”) and ketill (“sacrificial cauldron”).
* From Middle English hasty (“quick, speedy”), a nickname for a brisk or impetuous person, or possibly for a messenger.
proper noun Hastys · Hastey · Hastie
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States.
- A census-designated place in Bent County, Colorado, United States.
