# hasty

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈheɪsti/ · frequency rank #19,854

## Definitions
1. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
2. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
3. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
4. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
5. Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
6. Speedy, quick, rapid (without necessarily lacking time).
7. Irritable, irascible; quickly or easily excited to anger.
8. Heavy, violent.

## Etymology
From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.

## Easily confused with
- **hat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hat)
- **hay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hay)
- **hate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hate)
- **host** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-host)
- **hats** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hats)
- **hath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hath)
- **hazy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hazy)
- **hist** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hist)
- **hosts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hosts)
- **hefty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hefty)
- **husky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-husky)
- **haute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-haute)
- **hearty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hasty-vs-hearty)
- **has** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/has-vs-hasty)
- **hart** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hart-vs-hasty)
- **halt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/halt-vs-hasty)
- **hash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hash-vs-hasty)
- **hast** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hast-vs-hasty)
- **happy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/happy-vs-hasty)
- **harry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harry-vs-hasty)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ahsty`, `hassty`, `hastty`, `hastyy`, `hasyt`, `hatsy`, `hhasty`, `hsaty`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hasty