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[ kur-suh-ree ] / ˈkɜr sə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cursory ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivegoing rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article. Origin of cursory1595–1605; <Late Latin cursōrius running, equivalent to Latin cur(rere) to run + -sōrius, for -tōrius-tory1; cf. course SYNONYMS FOR cursoryquick, brief, passing, haphazard. SEE SYNONYMS FOR cursory ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM cursorycur·so·ri·ly, adverbcur·so·ri·ness, nounWords nearby cursorycurses, curse word, cursive, cursor, cursorial, cursory, curst, curt, curtail, curtail step, curtain Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cursoryTaking to the Internet for a cursory search of this world reveals hundreds of videos of home-based animal breeding systems. The Weird Underground World of Urban Animal Husbandry|Dale Eisinger|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST After a cursory read-through, Walsh offered him a part in The Big Trail. A New Biography Shows That ‘John Wayne’ Was His Own Best Creation|Christopher Bray|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST A cursory inspection of available podcasts was unable to reveal the reason for the difficulty with iTunes. The Podcast Too Hot for iTunes|Rich Goldstein|February 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST At the time, many in the audience only had a cursory knowledge of comic books. The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment|Alex Suskind|February 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Unless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky. Wingman, an App for Hookups at 30,000 Feet, Wants To Be the Tinder of Airline Travel|Charlotte Lytton|February 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST A cursory glance disclosed the fact that, brief as it was, there were mistakes in every key. The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3)|Alexander Wheelock Thayer It took us four days to obtain even a cursory view of Liverpool and Birkenhead. A Yacht Voyage Round England|W.H.G. Kingston It is idle, however, to give more than the most cursory consideration to sections of imaginary positions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6|Various A cursory description of the relations of the sexes since primeval days is of special importance for the purpose of this book. Woman and Socialism|August Bebel Villa's cursory description had not prepared Calvin Full for the reality of the huge beings. The Enormous Room|Horace Leonard Gold
British Dictionary definitions for cursory
adjectivehasty and usually superficial; quicka cursory check Derived forms of cursorycursorily, adverbcursoriness, nounWord Origin for cursoryC17: from Late Latin cursōrius of running, from Latin cursus a course, from currere to run Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to cursorysuperficial, offhand, random, perfunctory, sketchy, desultory, brief, careless, fast, half-baked, haphazard, hit or miss, hurried, passing, quick, rapid, shallow, short, slapdash, slight |