Usually means: Done with minimal effort, care.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word perfunctory:

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perfunctory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See perfunctorily as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Done only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty.
▸ adjective:  Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

Similar:
pro forma, formal, casual, careless, cursory, passing, otiose, routine, formulaic, drive-by, more...

Opposite:
sincere, genuine, heartfelt, earnest

Phrases:
perfunctory and obligatory, mundane perfunctory, perfunctory phrase, opposite of perfunctory, in a perfunctory manner, more...
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Similar:
pro forma, formal, casual, careless, cursory, passing, otiose, routine, formulaic, drive-by, more...

Opposite:
sincere, genuine, heartfelt, earnest

Phrases:
perfunctory and obligatory, mundane perfunctory, perfunctory phrase, opposite of perfunctory, in a perfunctory manner, more...



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