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adj
Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, daring, devil-may-care, headstrong, imprudent, impulsive, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, quick-and-dirty, rash, reckless, sudden, temeritous
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: precipitate
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Synonyms: cursory, express, fast, expeditious, feverish, fleet, fleeting, greased lightning, hasty, hectic, hectical, hyperactive, immediate, lightning fast, nimble, post haste, precipitant, quick, quick as a flash, quicksome, rapid, speedful, speedy, spit-spot, swift, tripsome, zippy, precipitous, abrupt, precipitate, spontaneous, subitaneous, sudden, suddent
Antonyms: crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, lethargic, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy
adj
That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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adv
Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Synonyms: precipitantly
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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adjective satellite
done with very great haste and without due deliberation- Shakespeare- Arthur Geddes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an agent that causes a precipitate to form
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agent
Narrower terms: dimethylglyoxime
History
The adjective is borrowed from Middle French précipitant, Old French precipitant (“acting hastily, hasty, rash; acting, happening, or moving rapidly; pressing”) (modern French précipitant), and from their etymon Late Latin praecipitans (“hasty, rash”), an adjective use of Latin praecipitāns, the present participle of praecipitō (“to cast down; to throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head first, headlong; (figurative) hasty, rash”) (from prae (“before; in front”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh2- (“before; in front”)) + -ceps (suffix meaning ‘having a head with specified characteristics’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“a head”))). The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.
Across languages
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