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Cursive vs Cursory - What's the difference?

cursive | cursory |

As adjectives the difference between cursive and cursory

is that cursive is running; flowing while cursory is hasty; superficial; careless.

As a noun cursive

is a cursive character, letter or font.

cursive

English

(wikipedia cursive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Running; flowing.
  • Having successive letters joined together.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cursive character, letter or font.
  • A manuscript written in cursive characters.

    • Antonyms

    * print

    Derived terms

    * cursively * cursiveness

    See also

    * handwriting * italic * longhand * shorthand ----

    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