The Clue
Precipitate (5 letter answer)
The Answer
HASTY
Tags
Notes
The answer HASTY is uncommon, appearing about once every 425 puzzles.
Related Clues
Cursory
Hurried
Impulsive
Overquick
___ pudding
Rash
Rushed
Kind of pudding
Overly quick
Rushed, as a decision
Harvard's ___ Pudding Club
Like Harvard's "Pudding"
Like many a retreat
Like some retreats
Done in a rush
___ pudding (cornmeal mush)
Quickly made, as a decision
Like some pudding and retreats
Not well-thought-out
Definition
HASTY as an adjective:
1. (hasty, headlong) = excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
2. (hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous) = 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"