Antonyms for hasty

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hey-stee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈheɪ sti

Definition of hasty

Origin : mid-14c., "speedy, quick," by 1500s replacing or nativizing earlier hastif (c.1300) "eager, impetuous," from Old French hastif "speedy, rapid; forward, advanced; rash, impetuous" (12c., Modern French hâtif), from haste (see haste). Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (the sense in hasty pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "rash" is from early 15c. Related: Hastiness. Old French also had a form hasti (for loss of terminal -f, cf. joli/jolif, etc.), which may have influenced the form of the English word.
The termination was doubtless from the first identified with native -i, -y, from OE -ig; and it is noticeable that the other Teutonic langs. have formed corresponding adjs. of that type: Du. haastig, Ger., Da., Sw. hastig. [OED]

adj speedy; without much thought

Example sentences :

Grace was in the middle of a hasty toilet when a knock sounded on the door.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

He is very severe against me indeed, and yet I hope I have not been hasty in my judgment of her.
Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen

I was no sooner out of this difficulty, than a hasty temper got me into another.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

She sat down, wrote a hasty line, sealed, and gave it to Morton.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The loss of their leader so disheartened them that they made a hasty retreat.
Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier

Hasty you may have been, but I know that wickedness never had a lodgment in your heart.
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

A pushing open of the outer door, a bang, and hasty footsteps in the hall.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

He's a great deal older than you, and if he was hasty, you was hasty too.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

He stopped before us and scowled at the soldier who saluted in hasty confusion.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

And the artist, judging with a hasty bias perhaps, is likely to answer no.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

Synonyms for hasty

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