Wednesday, September 24, 2008

PRECIPITATE (ADJ)

acting with excessive haste or impulse

done with very great haste and without due deliberation
SYN - hasty, overhasty
"wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in disposing the king."

"They were precipitate in finishing the project which you could tell when you took a close enough look at the lines outlining the squares."

"He made a point not to be precipitate with cooking and preparing the meal - it had to be just right."

"He precipitately finished his meal when he found out his friend had been here."

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