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Cursory vs Glimpse - What's the difference?

cursory | glimpse |

As an adjective cursory

is hasty; superficial; careless.

As a noun glimpse is

a brief look, glance, or peek.

As a verb glimpse is

to see or view briefly or incompletely.

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

    glimpse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brief look, glance, or peek.
  • :
  • *(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)
  • *:Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • A sudden flash.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
  • A faint idea; an inkling.

    • Verb

    (glimps)
  • To see or view briefly or incompletely.
    • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • To appear by glimpses.
    • (Drayton)

    Synonyms

    * perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of