overhasty

adjective

over·​hasty ˌō-vər-ˈhā-stē 

: excessively hasty

an overhasty marriage

… I feel many of us might have been overhasty in our judgments.

—Kevin McKenna

Synonyms

• cursory
• drive-by
• flying
• gadarene
• hasty
• headlong
• helter-skelter
• hurried
• pell-mell
• precipitate
• precipitous
• rash
• rushed

Examples of overhasty in a Sentence

an overhasty reading of the recipe resulted in the omission of a critical ingredient

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above