cursorily
1
7.7
- adverb
- /ˈkɜr.səˌrɪ.li/
:
de manera superficial
- He cursorily glanced over the report before submitting it, missing many important details.
- only cursorily
- even cursorily
- cursorily mentions
Examples
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Because vocabulary acquisition, comprehension, and usage are fundamental to success in and outside of the academy, this result should not be cursorily dismissed.
Academic text (1991) -
This aspect of the inspection is usually of lower priority than the food safety aspects and is often done cursorily or overlooked.
Academic text (2004) -
However, several important points are missing or are just cursorily alluded to.
Blog text (19) -
Under the new model, that includes ensuring that scenarios like the one you witnessed are at least cursorily investigated.
Blog text (21) -
As I cursorily reviewed our finances earlier this week, I realized that we are overspending.
Blog text (20) -
Before the 1870s, medical textbooks and journals, when they mentioned the subject at all, passed over it cursorily.
Academic text (1994) -
Lieber completed the text in March 1863, and it was cursorily reviewed by a panel of generals and quickly approved by President Lincoln.
Academic text (2008) -
For the methodologist, the frontier instead represents an advance from foundations and general principles that are treated cursorily if not taken for granted; one moves out to the frontiers.
Academic text (1995) -
The crowds of people or the technological innovations replete in the modern city are almost banished from these pages, at most denied or cursorily dismissed as irrelevant.
Academic text (1997) -
Unfortunately, their input regarding medical needs, developmental functioning levels, self-help requirements, social maturity, etc. may be solicited to meet legal mandates, but only cursorily incorporated into daily instruction.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
116
1.6
Without much care or serious thought
103
2.5
In a relaxed, not very careful way
49
3.5
In a quick, careless way
23
3.2
Acting quickly with little care
14
5.3
In a way that only looks at the surface and not deeply
3
7.7
Speak in a smooth way that does not seem honest
1
9.4
Quickly and without care because of little interest
1
6.7
In an easy way that shows little care or thought
To mention something briefly without giving details
Briefly and only a little for a short time
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cursorily comes from the Latin root curs-, from currere, which means 'to run'. So to do something cursorily is like 'running' through it, doing it quickly and without care.