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Showing words for CURSORY using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Cursory

cursory

6 Letter Words for Cursory

cruors, cursor, scoury, scurry

5 Letter Words for Cursory

corsy, cours, cruor, crusy, currs, curry, cyrus, orcus, scour, sorry, yours

4 Letter Words for Cursory

corr, cors, cory, cour, coys, croy, crus, curr, curs, cury, orcs, ours, rocs, rory, rosy, rous, rucs, scry, scur, sory, sour, your, yous

3 Letter Words for Cursory

cor, cos, coy, cro, crs, cru, cry, cur, orc, ors, ory, our, ous, oys, roc, ros, ruc, scr, soc, sou, soy, sur, syr, urs, yor, yos, you, yrs, yus

Definitions for Cursory

[1] going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
[2] hasty and usually superficial; quick a cursory check

Words related to Cursory

superficial, offhand, random, perfunctory, sketchy, desultory, brief, careless, fast, half-baked, haphazard, hurried, passing, quick, rapid, shallow, short, slapdash, slight, sloppy

Words nearby Cursory

cursed, curses, cursive, cursor, cursorial, cursory, curst, curt, curtail, curtail step, curtain

Origin of Cursory

1595–1605; < Late Latin cursōrius running, equivalent to Latin cur(rere ) to run + -sōrius, for -tōrius -tory1; cf. course

Other words from Cursory

cur·so·ri·ly , adverb
cur·so·ri·ness , noun

Word origin for Cursory

C17: from Late Latin cursōrius of running, from Latin cursus a course, from currere to run

Synonyms for Cursory

desultory, offhand, perfunctory, random, sketchy, superficial, brief, careless, depthless, fast, half-assed, half-baked, haphazard, hit or miss, hurried, passing, quick, rapid, shallow, short, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary, swift, uncritical