overhasty

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overhasty - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a.
     Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. --
     O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

overhasty - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  overhasty
      adj 1: 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" [syn: hasty,
             overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]