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cursory

/ˈkɜːsəri/adjective

उच्चारण कर्सरी

सरसरी, ऊपरी, जल्दबाज़ी में किया गया

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adjective
  1. 1

    often disapproving

    done quickly and without giving enough attention to details

    सरसरी, ऊपरी, जल्दबाज़ी में किया गया

    • a cursory glance at the newspaper
    • The officer made only a cursory inspection of the building.
    • The guard gave our bags a cursory check and waved us through.
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    • I had time for only a cursory look at the report.
    • The clerk's cursory reading missed several errors.

    Synonyms hasty superficial perfunctory casual brief

    Opposite thorough careful detailed painstaking

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cursorily adv.
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cur·so·ry

With -sory (not 'cursary' or 'cursery'); from the Latin cursor, a runner, the same root as cursor on a screen and course.

अंत में -sory ('cursary' या 'cursery' गलत है); Latin cursor, धावक, से, screen के cursor और course के मूल से।

?Which word?

Keep the careless words together: cursory (quick, not detailed), perfunctory (done only as a duty), superficial (only on the surface), desultory (without a plan).

लापरवाही के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: cursory (जल्दी, विस्तृत नहीं), perfunctory (केवल कर्तव्य के रूप में), superficial (केवल सतही), desultory (बिना योजना के)।