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English Dictionary: overhasty by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Overhasty \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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