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cursory 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈkərsərē/,
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Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed,
  1. Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed
    • - a cursory glance at the figures

  1. casual: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
  2. (cursorily) without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine"
  3. Brief or broad; not close, cautious, nor detailed
  4. short, hasty, not thoroughly done
  5. (adj.) brief to the point of being superficial (Late for the meeting, she cast a cursory glance at the agenda.)
  6. (kűr s -r ) adj. Performed with haste and scant attention to detail: a cursory glance at the headlines.