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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

When, therefore, the retreat was tardily undertaken, the fact that the more precipitate retirement had begun in front of the city and not behind it was of considerable effect in what followed.

From A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase by Belloc, Hilaire

Would that we could leave him at this triumphant stage of his career; but that is impossible, for rapid and remarkable as was his ascent, his fall and ruin were still more precipitate.

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James

His own, however, went up at a more precipitate angle and rested with the feet apart upon the mantle.

From Trumps by Curtis, George William

Rasher attacks by James II resulted in a still more precipitate retreat and in the abandonment of more of the royal prerogatives.

From The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)