hasty decisions
Choices made recklessly
Hasty decisions are choices made too quickly, without adequate thought or deliberation.
The phrase implies regret or poor outcomes—decisions that would have been different given more time: In hindsight, getting married after three weeks was a hasty decision.
The haste suggests impulse over reason, urgency over wisdom.
- impulsiveActing without deliberation
- rashHeedless or skin irritation
- jump the gunStart before permitted
- recklessCarelessly ignoring danger
- snap judgmentRapid evaluation without deliberation
rush to judgment · regret · leap · leap of faith · gamble · rushed · spontaneous · knee-jerk · thoughtless · brash · precipitous · whim · impulse · blunder · risky · careless · foolhardy · split-second
- recklessnessrecklessness, carelessness, negligence, impulsiveness, rashness
- Poor Judgmentfolly, recklessness, impulsiveness, snap judgments, rashness
- bad habitssmoking, drinking, lying, swearing, gossiping