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Definition of Cursory
1. Adjective. Hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough. "Perfunctory courtesy"
Definition of Cursory
1. a. Running about; not stationary.
Definition of Cursory
1. Adjective. hasty; superficial; careless ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Running about; not stationary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cursory
1. hasty and superficial [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cursory
Literary usage of Cursory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1817)
"On a cursory examination of the last publication noticed, we observe no ...
A cursory Enquiry into some of the principal causes of Mortality anton* Children ..."
2. The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors by Edmund March Blunt, George William Blunt (1847)
"cursory REMARKS AND SUGGESTIONS ON VARIOUS TOPICS IN METEOROLOGY. ... We now
proceed to exhibit a more general and cursory view of the atmosphere and winds, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"A cursory Examination of the Respective Pretensions of the ... B. 18010 A cursory
Glimpse at the State of the Nation on the Twenty- Second of February, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"... Origin and Description of Bognor,' London, 1807 ; ' cursory Inquiry into the
Principal Causes of Mortality among Children,' London, 1817. ..."
5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1826)
"Analytical Outlines of the English Language, or a cursory Examination of its
Materials and Structure, in the form of Familiar Dialogues, ..."
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