overhasty

/'ouvə'heisti/

Thân thiện

They made an overhasty decision without considering the consequences.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Done with excessive haste and without proper consideration: Describes an action or decision made too quickly, without sufficient thought or deliberation, often leading to negative consequences.

Usage

• As an adjective modifying a noun: Used to describe plans, actions, decisions, or judgments that are rushed.
  • It is unwise to make an overhasty decision.
  • The committee warned against overhasty reforms.

Examples

• The project's failure was due to an overhasty launch without adequate testing.
• She regretted her overhasty words spoken in anger.
• An overhasty conclusion can overlook important facts.

Advanced Usage

• "to be overhasty in (doing) something": To act with excessive speed in a specific matter.
  • The government was criticized for being overhasty in implementing the new policy.
• Used in formal or critical contexts to highlight a lack of prudence.

Variants and Related Words

• Hasty (adj): Done with speed, often too fast, but not necessarily as extreme as "overhasty."
  • a hasty departure
• Precipitate (adj, formal): Done with great or excessive haste and without thought.
  • a precipitate decision
• Rash (adj): Acting or done without careful consideration of the possible consequences; impetuous.
  • a rash promise

Synonyms

• Precipitate
• Rash
• Impetuous
• Reckless (in the context of speed and lack of care)

Antonyms

• Deliberate
• Prudent
• Cautious
• Measured

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Act in haste, repent at leisure": This proverb warns that actions taken too quickly (overhasty actions) often lead to regret.
  • He bought the car without checking it and now it has constant problems—a classic case of act in haste, repent at leisure.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• hasty
• precipitate
• precipitant
• precipitous