Hasty vs Calculating - What's the difference?
hasty | calculating |
Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. )
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(especially of a robot) Which has the ability to calculate.
(especially of a person) Which serves one's own interests in an unemotional, analytical manner.
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As adjectives the difference between hasty and calculating
is that hasty is acting in haste; being too hurried or quick (eg without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it ) while calculating is (especially of a robot) which has the ability to calculate.As a verb calculating is
.hasty
English
Adjective
(er)Derived terms
* hastily * hastiness * overhastyAnagrams
*calculating
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Following the sentencing, Knutton said: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating ? I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."}}