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[syn: sketchy, unelaborated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sketchy \Sketch"y\, a.
Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner
of a sketch; incomplete.
[1913 Webster]
The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in
particular, is left in the rough. --J. S.
Harford.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sketchy
adj 1: giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a
sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy"
[syn: sketchy, unelaborated]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "sketchy":
adulterated, arrested, blemished, callow, crude, cursory, damaged,
defective, deficient, depthless, embryonic, erroneous, failing,
fallible, faulty, found wanting, fuzzy, hasty, hurried,
hypoplastic, ill-defined, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise,
impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply,
inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, indistinct, inexact, infant,
lacking, makeshift, mediocre, missing, mixed, needing, not perfect,
off, part, partial, patchy, perfunctory, rough, rough-hewn, scant,
scanty, scrappy, shallow, short, shy, skimpy, superficial,
uncritical, underdeveloped, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished,
unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, unsound, unthorough, vague,
wanting