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Hasty

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.

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Hurried 84% connected

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Hurried 84% connected

Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Haste 74% connected

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Haste 74% connected

Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hastiness 74% connected

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hastiness 74% connected

The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Headlong 92% connected

With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Overhasty 92% connected

Too hasty; precipitate; rash.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Precipitant 92% connected

Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Precipitate 92% connected

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Precipitous 92% connected

Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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