different between hasty vs unhasty

English

Etymology

From Middle English hasty, of unclear origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste +? -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hastig, Middle Dutch haestigh (> 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”), of same ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?sti/
• Rhymes: -e?sti

Adjective

hasty (comparative hastier, superlative hastiest)

1. Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick
   • 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95:

     If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

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Anagrams

• sayth, yasht

English

Etymology

From un- +? hasty.

Adjective

unhasty (comparative more unhasty, superlative most unhasty)

1. Not hasty, the opposite of hasty.

   Synonyms: leisurely, unhurried, unrushed

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 3, p. 33,^[1]

     One day nigh wearie of the yrkesome way,

     From her vnhastie beast she did alight,

   • 1904, Elizabeth Miller, The Yoke, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 45, p. 590,^[2]

     A double file of camels with sumptuous housings moved with dignified and unhasty tread after the litters.

   • 1919, Eric Milner-White, “Unity between Christian Denominations” in D. H. S. Cranage (ed.), The War and Unity, Cambridge University Press, pp. 36-37,^[3]

     The quiet, unhasty, resolved manner in which the Chaplains to the Forces in France are moving is in striking contrast to the hasty proposals and hasty actions threatening on the less prepared soil at home.

   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 4, p. 84,^[4]

     After a long time (and the chant showed no signs of slackening) he found himself wondering, since Entish was such an ‘unhasty’ language, whether they had yet got further than Good Morning; and if Treebeard was to call the roll, how many days it would take to sing all their names.