Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor.
See Cursor.]
1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]
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2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially
performed; slight; superficial; careless.
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Events far too important to be treated in a cursory
manner. --Hallam.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cursory
adj : hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a
casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the
house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance";
"perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, passing(a), perfunctory]
WordNet (r) 2.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "cursory":
airy, ankle-deep, at odds, averse, brief, careless, casual, degage,
depthless, desultory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined,
disobedient, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, epidermal,
expeditious, fast, festinate, feverish, few, flippant, flying,
footling, forced, forgetful, fractious, free and easy, furious,
haphazard, hasty, heedless, hurried, immediate, inconsequential,
inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indifferent, indisposed, indocile,
insignificant, insouciant, instant, involuntary, jejune, knee-deep,
last-minute, lazy, light, little, low, meager, miniature, mutinous,
negligible, no great shakes, not deep, oblivious, offhand,
on the spot, on the surface, opposed, passing, perfunctory, petty,
picayune, picayunish, prompt, quick, random, rapid, recalcitrant,
reckless, refractory, regardless, resistant, respectless, shallow,
shallow-rooted, shoal, short, sketchy, skin-deep, slap-bang,
slapdash, slight, small, snap, speedy, sulky, sullen, summary,
superficial, surface, swift, tactless, thin, thoughtless, tiny,
trifling, trivial, unconsenting, uncritical, undiplomatic,
unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unprofound, unready,
unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unwilling, urgent
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
casual, passing(a), perfunctory
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