done quickly and without giving enough attention to details synonym brief, perfunctory粗略的;仓促的 a cursory glance/examination/inspection 匆匆的一瞥;粗略的审查/检查 He gave the report a rather cursory look. 他粗略地看了一下报告。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCursory is used with these nouns:- check
- examination
- glance
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin cursorius ‘of a runner’, from cursor ‘ runner’, from curs- ‘run’, from the verb currere.