precipitant
an agent that causes a precipitate to form • Derivationally related forms: precipitate • Hypernyms: agent • Hyponyms: dimethylglyoxime
done with very great haste and without due deliberation - "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare - "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes - rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion - wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king • Syn: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous • Similar to: hurried • Derivationally related forms: precipitousness (for: precipitous), precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, precipitateness (for: precipitate), haste (for: hasty), hastiness (for: hasty)
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