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English-Thai Dictionary

sketchy

ADJ คร่าวๆ  ลวกๆ  หยาบๆ  หวัดๆ  crude coarse preliminary kao-kao

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SKETCHY

SKETCHY Sketch "y, a.

 

Defn: Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete. The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sketchy

sketch y |ˈskeCHē ˈskɛtʃi | adjective ( sketchier, sketchiest ) not thorough or detailed: the information they had was sketchy. (of a picture ) resembling a sketch; consisting of outline without much detail. DERIVATIVES sketch i ly |ˈskeCHəlē |adverb, sketch i ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

sketchy

sketchy |ˈskɛtʃi | adjective ( sketchier, sketchiest ) not thorough or detailed: the information they had was sketchy. (of a picture ) resembling a sketch; consisting of outline without much detail. DERIVATIVES sketchily adverb, sketchiness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sketchy

sketchy adjective we have only a sketchy description of the assailant: incomplete, patchy, fragmentary, cursory, perfunctory, scanty, vague, imprecise, imperfect; hurried, hasty. ANTONYMS detailed.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sketchy

sketchy adjective he has only been able to provide the police with sketchy details of the youths: incomplete, inadequate, limited, patchy, scrappy, bitty, fragmentary, rudimentary; superficial, cursory, perfunctory, slight, scanty, skimpy, meagre, insufficient; vague, imprecise, fuzzy; hurried, hasty, provisional; informal on the back of an envelope. ANTONYMS detailed, exhaustive, full.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sketchy

sketch y /skétʃi /形容詞 1 概観の, 概略の ; スケッチ風の, スケッチの .2 ⦅否定的に ⦆大ざっぱな, 不完全な .sk tch i ly 副詞 ざっと, あらまし .sk tch i ness 名詞