Cursory definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CURSORY, a. [L. See Course.] 1. Running; hasty; slight; superficial; careless; not with close attention; as a cursory reading; a cursory view. 2. Running about; not stationary. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... 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, cursory, passing, perfunctory] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Late Latin ...
... appearance without substance or significance • superficially adverb Synonyms: superficial, shallow, cursory mean lacking in depth or solidity. superficial implies a concern ... reasoning, emotions, or character < a light, shallow, and frivolous review >. cursory suggests a lack of thoroughness or a neglect of details < gave the letter only a cursory reading >. Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 of or on the ... lacking depth (a superficial knowledge; superficial wounds). 2 swift or cursory (a superficial examination). 3 apparent but not real (a superficial ... bloodless, catchpenny, characterless, cold, colorless, conventionalized, cortical, cosmetic, critical, cubic, cursory, dabbling, dead, depthless, dilettante, dilettantish, dimensional, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary ...
... 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, cursory, passing, perfunctory] n 1: (American football) a play that involves ... of PASS v. 2 transient, fleeting (a passing glance). 3 cursory, incidental (a passing reference). --n. 1 in senses of PASS ... clinical death, concurrent resolution, constitution, corruptible, crossing the bar, current, cursory, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, deciduous ...
... 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, cursory, passing, perfunctory] 6: occurring from time to time; "casual employment ... circumstantial, clear, collateral, common, common laborer, conditional, contingent, cool, cordial, cursory, cushy, day laborer, degage, designless, destinal, desultory, detached, devil-may ...
Cursorary definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CURSORARY, a. Cursory; hasty. [Not in use.] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Cursorary Cur"so*ra*ry (-s?-r?-r?), a. Cursory; hasty. [Obs.] With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles ...
... 2. In Palestine (1) Early Christian Period (2) Period of Cursory Observation (3) Beginning of Scientific Observation II. ERA OF SCIENTIFIC ... by the scientific conclusions of recent investigators. (2) Period of Cursory Observation. The earliest traveler who has left a record of ...
... press importunately. 1. To run over, to recount in a cursory manner; to narrate hastily; as, to run over the particulars ... the eye, the memory, etc.) pass in a transitory or cursory way (ideas ran through my mind). b tr. cause (one ...
... n. Slight view or attention. Merriam Webster's noun see cursory Webster's 1913 Dictionary Cursoriness Cur"so*ri*ness, n. The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
... speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of ... group [emphasis] Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. n. Cursory reference or allusion. II. v. a. Declare, name, tell, state ...