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(adj) hasty, overhasty, 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
fall from clouds
rain, snow and sleet were falling; Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum