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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy" [syn: sketchy, unelaborated]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sketchier; -est) Date: 1805 1. of the nature of a sketch ; roughly outlined 2. wanting in completeness, clearness, or substance ; slight, superficial <the details are sketchy> 3. questionable, iffy <got into a sketchy situation> <a sketchy character> • sketchily adverb • sketchiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sketchier, sketchiest) 1 giving only a slight or rough outline, like a sketch. 2 colloq. unsubstantial or imperfect esp. through haste. Derivatives: sketchily adv. sketchiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sketchy Sketch"y, a. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sketchier, sketchiest) Sketchy information about something does not include many details and is therefore incomplete or inadequate. Details of what actually happened are still sketchy... = vague ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Incomplete, unfinished.

Moby Thesaurus

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