overhastened

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ hastened

Adjective[edit]

overhastened (comparative more overhastened, superlative most overhastened)

  1. Brought on too hastily; rushed.
    • 1867, The British Controversialist, and Literary Magazine, page 89:
      Sometimes conclusions were overhastened and rashly arrived at; but, as a rule, the exquisite critical subtlety of the old thinkers kept them safe from error []