hasty
Done without thinking
Hasty describes something done too quickly, with insufficient thought or care.
A hasty decision is one you might regret; a hasty retreat suggests panic rather than strategy.
The word implies recklessness or impatience: Don't be hasty—let's think this through.
Hasty can also simply mean quick or speedy, though this neutral sense is less common now.
Done too quickly
fast · expedited · accelerated · deadline-driven · last-minute · urgent · pressed · harried
Acting on sudden urge
- rashHeedless or skin irritation
- imprudentLacking careful forethought
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
- spontaneousArising without external cause
unpremeditated · spur-of-the-moment · knee-jerk · snap · whimsical · capricious · heedless · incautious
Careless and untidy
- slipshodCareless and hasty
- shoddyOf poor craftsmanship
- negligentFailing in due care
- perfunctoryDone with minimal effort
cursory · superficial · half-baked · botched · haphazard · rough · unpolished · thrown-together
hurried
Done too quickly
speedy · fast · expedited · accelerated · deadline-driven · last-minute · urgent · pressed · harried · frantic
impetuous
Acting on sudden urge
- rashHeedless or skin irritation
- imprudentLacking careful forethought
- unthinkingLacking conscious thought
spontaneous · unpremeditated · spur-of-the-moment · knee-jerk · snap · whimsical · capricious · heedless · incautious · headlong
sloppy
Careless and untidy
perfunctory · cursory · superficial · half-baked · botched · haphazard · rough · unpolished · thrown-together · makeshift
eager
Intensely wanting something
short-tempered · curt · brusque · irritable · testy · fidgety · impatient · abrupt · snappish · intolerant
- Quick wordsinstant, swift, rapid, fast, speedy
- slapdashsloppy, rushed, careless, haphazard, shoddy
- time pressurerush, against the clock, rushed, clock is ticking, urgency
- being rushedhurrying, rushing, running late, scrambling, hustling
- thoughtlessthoughtless, unthinking, mindless, unreflective, unconsidered
- unreadyunprepared, ill-prepared, ill-equipped, unready, not ready
hastydeliberate
Consciously chosen, not accidental
considered · careful · thoughtful · calculated · circumspect
hastyforesighted
Having anticipation of consequences
long-term · farsighted · provident · forward-thinking · strategic
- haste makes wasteAdage against rushing
- beat a hasty retreatDepart rapidly under pressure
- in haste
- hasty retreatRapid, unplanned departure
- make hasteAct with urgency
- beating a hasty retreatDeparting quickly under pressure
haste, hastily, hasten, hastiness, hastening, hastened, posthaste, hastier, overhasty