HASTY, adjective Quick; speedy; opposed to slow. Be not hasty to go out of his sight. Ecclesiastes 8:3. 1. Eager precipitate; rash; opposed to deliberate. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Proverbs 29:20. 2. Irritable; easily excited to wrath; passionate. He that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. Proverbs 14:29. 3. Early ripe; forward; as hasty fruit. Isaiah 28:4.
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