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Hasty vs Incautious - What's the difference?

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Hasty is a related term of incautious.


As adjectives the difference between hasty and incautious

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 incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

hasty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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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    • Derived terms

    * hastily * hastiness * overhasty

    Related terms

    * haste * hasten * hasteful * hurried

    Anagrams

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    incautious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution
  • * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • "You might have remained so still," replies Jones, "if you had not been unfortunate, I will venture to say incautious , in the placing your affections.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.

    Derived terms

    * incautiously