1. Descriptive of something which is made, done, or acted on very quickly or too fast without enough thinking or planning: Jim and Jane made a precipitate decision to go on a trip before they had prepared the details necessary to make such a commitment.
2. Referring to a situation or event occurring with haste or speed: Linda had to make more precipitate choices for the rest of her final exam at school because there was only five minutes more to complete it.
3. Etymology: from Latin praecipitatus, "hurl headlong, fall, be hasty" from praeceps, "headlong"; prae-, "forth, before" + caput, "head". © ALL rights are reserved.

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