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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

Poured on liquid carbonate of potash until no more precipitate fell.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

As a matter of fact, owing to the exigencies of dramatic action, we were compelled to make the affair much more precipitate than in the book.

From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood

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 Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir

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