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Hasten vs. Hasty

Difference Between Hasten and Hasty

Hasten

To move or act swiftly.
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Hasty

Done or made without due consideration or attention; precipitate or cursory
a hasty decision.
a hasty conclusion.
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Hasten

To cause to move or act swiftly
The guard hastened him out of the room.
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Hasty

Done or made rapidly due to pressing circumstances
beat a hasty retreat.
bid a hasty goodbye.
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Hasten

To cause to happen sooner than otherwise would be the case
negotiations that hastened the end of the war.
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Hasty

Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried
Don't be too hasty in taking sides.
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Hasten

To speed up; accelerate
fanned the wet paint to hasten drying.
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Hasty

Impatient or rudely abrupt
"Oh, what would I not give if I had been less hasty with her! It is dreadful to remember that I spoke to her as a servant whom I expected to obey me" (Wilkie Collins).
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Hasten

(intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
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Hasty

Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.
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Hasten

(transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
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Hasty

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.
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Hasten

(transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
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Hasty

Demanding haste or immediate action.
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Hasten

To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
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Hasty

Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
The hasty multitudeAdmiring entered.
Be not hasty to go out of his sight.
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Hasten

To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.
I hastened to the spot whence the noise came.
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Hasty

Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
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Hasten

act or move at high speed;
We have to rush!
hurry--it's late!
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Hasty

Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
Take no unkindness of his hasty words.
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Hasten

step on it;
He rushed down the hall to receive his guests
The cars raced down the street
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Hasty

Forward; early; first ripe.
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Hasten

speed up the progress of; facilitate;
This should expedite the process
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Hasty

excessively quick;
made a hasty exit
a headlong rush to sell
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Hasten

cause to occur rapidly;
the infection precipitated a high fever and allergic reactions
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Hasty

done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
hasty marriage seldom proveth well
hasty makeshifts take the place of planning
rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
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