Usually means: Brief and without much detail.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word cursory:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cursory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cursory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cursory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cursory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cursory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cursory, cursory: Wordnik
  7. cursory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cursory: Wiktionary
  9. cursory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cursory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cursory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cursory, cursory: Dictionary.com
  13. cursory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cursory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cursory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cursory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cursory: Rhymezone
  18. Cursory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cursory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cursory: Free Dictionary
  21. cursory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cursory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. cursory: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cursory: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cursory: Encyclopedia

(Note: See cursorily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Hasty or superficial.
adjective:  Careless or desultory.
adjective:  (obsolete) Running about; not stationary.

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