CURSORY Meaning of CURSORY in English [ 'kə:s(ə)ri ]■ adjective hasty and therefore not thorough.Derivativescursorily adverbcursoriness noun OriginC17: from L. cursorius 'of a runner', from cursor (see cursor ). Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004