Meaning

3 senses
  1. Hasty or superficial.

    cursory glance

    A cursory view of the report revealed his egregious errors.

    oberflächlich, flüchtig

    бе́глыйbéglyj, пове́рхностныйpovérxnostnyj

    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

  2. Careless or desultory.

    The cursory inspection missed several irregularities.

  3. (obsolete)Running about; not stationary.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. I only had a cursory look at it.

    deIch habe es bloß überflogen.

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  2. He gave the material a cursory reading.

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  3. A cursory examination of his teeth indicated that he had gingivitis.

    ruПоверхностный осмотр его зубов показал, что у него гингивит.

    deEine grobe Untersuchung seiner Zähne gab zu erkennen, dass er eine Zahnfleischentzündung hatte.

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  4. Cassidy was relieved when the police officer waved her on after only a cursory glance into her back seat.

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  5. A cursory check with music stores in Johannesburg revealed that many stock large selections of her CDs.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
hasty, superficial:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
hasty, superficial:

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or

Borrowed from Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or running”).

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Forms

more cursory, most cursory
Comparativemore cursory Lesson
Superlativemost cursory Lesson

regular

Synonyms

62 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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