perfunctory
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General adjective
Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection, as a routine duty rather than with genuine care.
Her perfunctory nod suggested she had skimmed the report rather than read it properly.
Business adjective
Carried out with minimal effort or reflection, as a routine duty.
The client complained that the mid-project check-in felt perfunctory rather than a genuine review of progress.
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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