Vocabulary
Cursory
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed.
Urdu meaning
لاپرواہ، برائے نام، سرسری
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The Defence of Human Rights movement points out that such speed implies cursory hearings.
- Anyone possessing an even cursory familiarity with Pakistani cities and towns will know how unchecked and unfettered urban expansion has dramatically altered the rural-urban frontier.
- They lack timely access to the finance bill and are neither empowered nor sufficiently resourced, leading to cursory oversight that seldom challenges or proposes substantial increases in climate allocations.
- A cursory glance at the world media in general, and defence-related publications/ sites in particular, shows the fascination with how the Chinese-provided assets were used to lethal effect by the PAF.
- I used to think this too, until more recently I learned from a cursory study of India`s economic reforms that this perception is not true.
Synonyms
perfunctory, desultory, casual, superficial, token, uninterested, half-hearted, inattentive
Antonyms
thorough, painstaking
Curator example
“a cursory glance at the figures”
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