Overhasty (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- Her overhasty decision to quit her job without a plan for her future came back to haunt her when she found herself struggling financially.
- He later regretted his overhasty marriage, which he entered into after a whirlwind romance of just a few weeks.
- The new business's overhasty launch was evident in its many bugs and lack of proper marketing.
- In his overhasty effort to complete the project by the deadline, he compromised the quality of his work and missed crucial details.
- After losing the case, she reflected on whether she had made an overhasty accusation, which might have harmed her chances of a successful trial.