overhasty

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English hasty English overhasty From over- + hasty.

1. Too hasty.

   “I realized that I had been overhasty in selecting a dance partner when my toes were trodden on yet again.”

   “He denounces in the most impressive language that overhasty and most dangerous practice of resorting to manual or instrumental interference, before the os uteri and other soft parts are duly dilated.”