cursory as an adjective: - 1
cursory
adjective
1 cursory
Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough:
— A casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws.
synonyms: casual, passing, perfunctory, superficial.
Roget 684:
hasty,
hurried,
brusque;
scrambling,
cursory,
precipitate,
headlong,
furious,
boisterous,
impetuous,
hotheaded;
feverish,
fussy;
pushing.
in haste,
in a hurry
etc.
n.;
in hot haste,
in all haste;
breathless,
pressed for time,
hard pressed,
urgent.
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Roget 111:
transient,
transitory,
transitive;
passing,
evanescent,
fleeting,
cursory,
short-lived,
ephemeral;
flying
etc.
v.;
fugacious,
fugitive;
shifting,
slippery;
spasmodic;
instantaneous,
momentaneous†.
temporal,
temporary;
provisional,
provisory;
deciduous;
perishable,
mortal,
precarious,
unstable,
insecure;
impermanent.
brief,
quick,
brisk,
extemporaneous,
summary;
pressed for time
etc.
(haste)
684;
sudden,
momentary
etc.
(instantaneous)
113.
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Roget 458:
inattentive;
unobservant,
unmindful,
heedless,
unthinking,
unheeding,
undiscerning†;
inadvertent;
mindless,
regardless,
respectless†,
listless
etc.
(indifferent)
866;
blind,
deaf;
bird-witted;
hand over head;
cursory,
percursory†;
giddy-brained,
scatter-brained,
hare-brained;
unreflective,
unreflecting†,
ecervele [Fr.];
offhand;
dizzy,
muzzy†,
brainsick†;
giddy,
giddy as a goose;
wild,
harum-scarum,
rantipole†,
highflying;
heedless,
careless
etc.
(neglectful)
460.
inconsiderate,
thoughtless.
absent,
abstracted,
distrait;
absentminded,
lost;
lost in thought,
wrapped in thought;
rapt,
in the clouds,
bemused;
dreaming on other things,
musing on other things;
preoccupied,
engrossed
etc.
(attentive)
457;
daydreaming,
in a reverie
etc.
n.;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†;
napping;
dreamy;
caught napping.
disconcerted,
distracted,
put out
etc.
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Polish: nieuważny
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