Vocabulary
Hasty
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
done with excessive speed or urgency; hurried.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- From then until 2021 and the infamous, sudden and hasty withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan, Pakistan has been constantly beset by terrorist attacks.
- Heat records topple every summer, but newscasts often skip the deeper story lax regulations, hasty industrial expansions, and chronic mismanagement that transformed a natural challenge into a fullblown crisis.
- The hasty passage of the Peca Amendment Act, 2025, (likely accelerated by the looming anniversary of the Feb 8 elections) confirms that this savvy if cynical approach to press freedom, and free speech more broadly, is over.
- Heat records topple every summer, but newscasts often skip the deeper story lax regulations, hasty industrial expansions, and chronic mismanagement that transformed a natural challenge into a fullblown crisis.
- The hasty passage of the Peca Amendment Act, 2025, (likely accelerated by the looming anniversary of the Feb 8 elections) confirms that this savvy if cynical approach to press freedom, and free speech more broadly, is over.
Synonyms
quick, hurried, fast, swift, rapid, speedy, brisk, hurrying, expeditious, cursory
Antonyms
slow, considered
Curator example
“a hasty attempt to defuse the situation”
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