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overhasty

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over·​hasty | \ ˌō-vər-ˈhā-stē How to pronounce overhasty (audio) \

Definition of overhasty

: excessively hasty an overhasty marriage … I feel many of us might have been overhasty in our judgments.— Kevin McKenna

First Known Use of overhasty

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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