| 单词 | hasty |
| 释义 | hasty (once / 129 pages) adj Hasty means speedy and brash. If you try to make a hasty exit after breaking up with someone, you’ll seem like a jerk. Hasty, meaning “speedy, quick,” first came onto the scene in the mid 14th century. Later, it found itself paired with pudding to form hasty pudding, a dessert that only takes a short amount of time to make. Note that hasty, unlike fast, has negative connotations. If someone accuses you of having completed an assignment in a hasty fashion, it means your work appears careless. WORD FAMILYhasty: hastier, hastiest, hastily, hastiness, hastyly, overhasty+/haste: hastes, hasty/overhasty: overhastily USAGE EXAMPLESAnd Peggy Hicks warns against hasty criticism of current human rights law, in the absence of any genuine alternatives. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) It bore all the signs of a hasty retreat during breakfast. Los Angeles Times(Dec 18, 2016) Executives also said they would make no hasty decisions about the plant. Reuters(Nov 21, 2016) 1adj excessively quick made a hasty exit Syn headlong hurried moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste 2adj done with very great haste and without due deliberation " hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare " hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes Syn overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous hurried moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste |
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