precipitately

English

Etymology

From precipitate +‎ -ly.

Adverb

precipitately (comparative more precipitately, superlative most precipitately)

1. In a precipitate manner.

   Synonym: precipitantly

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 215:

     He talked precipitately, and I did not try to stop him.

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "That's that!" said Mailey, folding up the paper. "Now, Mr. Thomas Didymus, I leave you to your conclusions," and the enthusiast vanished out of the office as precipitately as he had entered.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 63:

     Nawnim rushed into the bedroom so precipitately that he nearly crashed into the bed.

   • 1963 June, G. Freeman Allen, “The success of diesel-hydraulics on the German Federal Railway”, in Modern Railways, page 387:

     Despite their pre-war pioneering work in diesel rail traction, the Germans did not precipitately dieselise their own national system as soon as post-war opportunity offered.

Translations

In a precipitate manner

• Spanish: precipitadamente (es)