more precipitate

ADJECTIVE

fast, sudden; impulsive; initial

Synonyms

WEAK

abrupt breakneck brief frantic gone off half-cocked harum-scarum hasty headlong heedless hurried ill-advised impatient impetuous indiscreet jump the gun madcap off the hip off the top of head plunging precipitant quick rapid rash reckless refractory rushing subitaneous swift unanticipated uncontrolled unexpected unforeseen violent willful without warning

Antonyms

WEAK

careful cautious slow

Example Sentences

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Unless his British friends should insist on action more precipitate, Generalissimo Gamelin appeared content to reply to the Stefani report: "After you, Adolf."

From Time Magazine Archive

On reflection, I am inclined to think the measures adopted in the case narrated above were somewhat more precipitate than they ought to have been.

From The Dog by Dinks

They looked at Nicodemus furiously, and could not reply, but continued to question the witnesses in a still more precipitate and imprudent manner.

From The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Emmerich, Anna Catherine

Their flight was more precipitate than the other party's had been.

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth

Join all the decanted liquors, and evaporate, as far as possible, without occasioning cristallization, and, when the liquor is cold, drop in muriatic acid till no more precipitate is formed.

From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine