cursory
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Hasty and superficial, done without attention to detail.
A cursory inspection missed the cracks that later caused the collapse.
Business adjective
Hasty and lacking attention to detail.
A cursory read of the vendor contracts missed the exclusivity clause that later blocked the sourcing strategy.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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