Synonyms:
hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous
Meaning: 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"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
precipitate
Meaning: a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
precipitate
Meaning: bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
Synonyms:
precipitate
Meaning: separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
Usage examples
I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean.
The salts give a yellow precipitate with platinum chloride, and a white precipitate with tartaric acid.
Thus downward from a bank precipitate, We found resounding that dark-tinted water, So that it soon the ear would have offended.
"True!" observed the Baron, dryly, and at that instant a page of the bedchamber came from the palace with a heightened color, and a precipitate step.
I heard afterwards that he was popularly supposed to be as much afraid of a woman as most people are of a mad dog, which accounted for his precipitate retreat.
But pray don't encourage him, as I said; for he is much too heady and precipitate as to this matter, in my way of thinking; though, to be sure, he is a very good man, and I am much obliged to him.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Cold War, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jurassic, License CC BY-SA 4.0