Precipitant (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
- The company's precipitant decision to expand resulted in financial losses.
- Her friends thought it was too early for a precipitant engagement after just two weeks of dating.
- In an attempt to stem the economic crisis, the government implemented precipitant spending cuts.
- Many believed that the board had taken precipitant action by firing the CEO so suddenly.
- Their precipitant announcement caught many of their investors off guard and some people questioned its wisdom.