overhasty adj 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" [syn: {hasty}, {overhasty}, {precipitate}, {precipitant}, {precipitous}]
Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- {O"ver*has"ti*ly}, adv. -- {O`ver*has"ti*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]