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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or running”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cursory (comparative more cursory, superlative most cursory)
- Hasty or superficial.
- cursory glance
Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. , volume I, London: for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 53:But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC:I may say that that single cursory examination of this awful travesty on Nature would have proved quite sufficient to my desires had I been a free agent.
- Careless or desultory.
The cursory inspection missed several irregularities.
- (obsolete) Running about; not stationary.
Derived terms
Translations
hasty, superficial, careless
- Bulgarian: бегъл (bg) (begǎl), повърхностен (bg) (povǎrhnosten)
- Czech: zběžný
- Danish: kursorisk, overfladisk
- Dutch: haastig (nl), oppervlakkig (nl), vluchtig (nl)
- Finnish: pintapuolinen, pikainen (fi), kursorinen (fi)
- French: rapide (fr), superficiel (fr),
- German: oberflächlich (de), flüchtig (de)
- Italian: rapido (it) m, distratto (it) m, sbrigativo (it) m
- Persian: سرسری (fa) (sarsari)
- Polish: pobieżny (pl)
- Russian: бе́глый (ru) m (béglyj), пове́рхностный (ru) m (povérxnostnyj)
- Spanish: rápido (es), superficial (es)
- Swedish: hastig (sv), flyktig (sv), ytlig (sv)
- Yiddish: אויבנאויפֿיק (oybnoyfik)
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