- 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"
- (cursorily) without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine"
- Brief or broad; not close, cautious, nor detailed
- short, hasty, not thoroughly done
- (adj.) brief to the point of being superficial (Late for the meeting, she cast a cursory glance at the agenda.)
- (kűr s -r ) adj. Performed with haste and scant attention to detail: a cursory glance at the headlines.