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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more precipitate

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

In fact, I believe that I am not more precipitate or presumptuous than other people, but only more open.

From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan

You are more precipitate than I have been.

From His Sombre Rivals by Edward Payson Roe

Oh! thou hadst raised me to the height of heaven, to make my fall to hell the more precipitate.

From Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

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 Ellsworth Douglass

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