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Compendium vs Cursory - What's the difference?

compendium | cursory |

As a noun compendium

is a short, complete summary; an abstract.

As an adjective cursory is

hasty; superficial; careless.

compendium

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A short, complete summary; an abstract.
  • A list or collection of various items.
  • * 2008 , Caroline Murphy, Murder of a Medici Princess (page 157)
  • It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.
  • # (label) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
  • Derived terms

    * compendial

    cursory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • hasty; superficial; careless
  • Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.
  • (obsolete) Running about; not stationary.
  • Derived terms

    * cursorily * cursoriness

    See also

    * cursor