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Meaning of OVERHASTY

Pronunciation:  'owvur'heystee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  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"
 
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 Synonyms: hasty, hurried, precipitant, precipitate
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\O"ver*has"ty\, a.
Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- {O"ver*has"ti*ly}, adv. --
{O`ver*has"ti*ness}, n.
 

 

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