cursorily
cursorily adverb: in a cursory manner.
Adverb
cursorily (comparative more cursorily, superlative most cursorily)
- In a cursory manner.
- This place contains ſo many remarkable remains, and collections ſo curious, that we are ſorry to paſs by it curſorily. We adviſe the reader and the traveller to be leſs haſty. The trophæal arch and the ſepulchral monument, at Glanum Livii, a colony probably eſtabliſhed by M. Livius Druſus Libo...1788?: Tobias George Smollett [ed.], The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 65, page 454
- Rhodammonium Compounds. By S. M. JÖRGENSEN (J. pr. Chem. [2], 25, 346-348).— The author has prepared and cursorily examined some of the rhodammonium compounds, and has found them to be strictly analogous to the cobalt- and chrom-ammonium compounds.1882, “Abstracts of Chemical Papers”, in Journal of the Chemical Society - Part 2, page 1173
cursorily meaning in Urdu
cursorily in Urdu
- اوپر اوپر
Forms of cursorily
| comparative | more cursorily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cursorily |
Origin of cursorily
From cursory + -ly.
Questions about cursorily
- What does cursorily mean?
- Cursorily means in a cursory manner.
- What is cursorily in Urdu?
- Cursorily in Urdu is اوپر اوپر. See Cursorily meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is cursorily?
- Cursorily is an adverb.
Words near cursorily in the dictionary
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