sketchy

from 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}]
    
from 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.
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from 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

    

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