cursorily
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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, afford alſo ſeveral circumſtances, which will intereſt the attentive traveller."
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more cursorily (comparative)
most cursorily (superlative)