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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. giving only major points; lacking completeness;
- Example: "a sketchy account"
- Example: "details of the plan remain sketchy"
[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