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/cursory/

-) Adjective.

-) Pronunciation and accent: kɜːsərɪ.

-) Etymology: from Latin cursōrius (of or pertaining to a runner or a race), from cursōr (runner), from currere (to run).

-) 1. Rapidly performed, but with little or no attention to details, as if by running over a thing; performed with cursoriness.

-) Synonyms for “cursory”: hasty, hurried. 

-) Antonyms: protracted, prolonged, thorough, exhaustive.

-) Translation: hâtif, in French; apresurado, in Spanish; frettoloso, in Italian.

Our examination of the collection… was too cursory to admit of a notice of the pictures in detail, even were it desirable, so long after the close of the exhibition.

The Knickerbocker… 1858

-) 2. (Of a person) performing cursorily an action.

… readers, both cursory and studious.

Carlyle… Critical and Miscellaneous Essays… 1865

-) Words derived from “cursory”: cursorily, cursoriness.

-) Words derived from Latin currere, see CURSOR.