cursorily

1. 1.

   without taking pains

   “he looked cursorily through the magazine”

   Synonymsquickly

Questions about cursorily

What does cursorily mean?

cursorily means "without taking pains".

How many syllables are in cursorily?

cursorily has 4 syllables: cur-so-ri-ly. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for cursorily?

Close synonyms include quickly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cursorily a common word?

cursorily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.