Word Prevalence

Meaning and example

hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

A casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws

Plain-English interpretation

A prevalence score of 1.080 places perfunctory in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 86.4% of people in the source dataset.

Related words

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Similar-prevalence words

repleteUncommon

Known by: 86.3%

fill to satisfaction

nonplussedUncommon

Known by: 86.2%

filled with bewilderment

reticentUncommon

Known by: 86.7%

temperamentally disinclined to talk

incontrovertibleUncommon

Known by: 85.9%

impossible to deny or disprove

diatribeUncommon

Known by: 85.8%

thunderous verbal attack

Source attribution

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.