1a : done or made in a hurry hasty city-street snapshots— R. B. Heilman. b : fast and typically superficial made a hasty examination of the wound. c archaic : rapid in action or movement : speedy. 2 : acting too quickly : overly eager or impatient realized he had been hasty in quitting his job.

How would you describe a hasty person?

If you describe a person or their behaviour as hasty, you mean that they are acting too quickly, without thinking carefully, for example because they are angry. So let's not be hasty. After all, he can't run away.

What does not hasty mean?

2. a. Acting with too much speed or haste; hurried: Don't be too hasty in taking sides. b. Impatient or rudely abrupt: "Oh, what would I not give if I had been less hasty with her!