Gadarene [GAD-ə-reen]  

Part of speech: adjective 

Origin: Greek, mid-16th century  

1. Involving or engaged in a headlong or potentially disastrous rush to do something.  

Examples of Gadarene in a sentence  

"In one Gadarene week, Arthur sold his car, dropped out of college, and joined the French Foreign Legion."  

"Though it seemed like a Gadarene choice when the vice president of the company quit her job to buy a farm, she had planned the move for over a decade."