🇬🇧🇪🇸 hasty - apresurado : English Lesson

Meaning of "hasty" ("apresurado"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

When you are hasty, you do something very quickly without stopping to think it through, like rushing so fast that you make silly mistakes you could have avoided.

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I made a hasty sandwich and accidentally put toothpaste where the mayonnaise was supposed to go.

In a hasty decision, the king knighted his cat, and now Sir Whiskers refuses to use the litter box without a royal trumpet fanfare.

The hasty painter finished my portrait so fast that I ended up with three eyebrows and a nose on my forehead.

I took a hasty bite of my cereal before checking the box and discovered I was eating dog food shaped like tiny bones.

I made a hasty choice and grabbed the mystery lunchbox, which contained one grape, a pickle, and a spoonful of air.

At the picnic, she made a hasty move for the spilled juice; her hasty hand knocked the cake, a hasty push sent paper plates flying, and a hasty apology burst out. Everyone froze, then laughed, gathered crumbs, and hugged — the hasty mess became a warm memory. They wiped hands, shared smiles, and still ate the soft cake together.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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