hastive

English

Etymology

From Old French hastif. See haste (noun).

Adjective

hastive (comparative more hastive, superlative most hastive)

  1. (obsolete, of fruits) forward; early

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hastive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Old French

Adjective

hastive

  1. feminine nominative/oblique singular of hastif
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