Perfunctory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting.
  • adj. Acting with indifference; showing little interest or care.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Done merely to discharge a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions; aspiring only to minimum standards.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference.
  • adj. Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Done mechanically or without interest or zeal, and merely for the sake of getting rid of the duty; done in a half-hearted or careless manner, or so as to conform to the letter but not to the spirit; careless; negligent.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. as a formality only
  • adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
    • Equivalent
    formal    careless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    indifferent    listless    careless    formal    slipshod   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cursory    curt    tentative    ironical    halfhearted   
     
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