Synonyms for Perfunctory:

• adj.

  •automatic (adjective)
  • autogenetic,
  • unwilled,
  • Unmeditated,
  • unconscious.
  •automatic, unthinking (adjective)
  • wooden,
  • negligent,
  • uninterested,
  • slovenly,
  • offhand,
  • unconcerned,
  • routine,
  • usual,
  • stereotyped,
  • unaware,
  • phoning it in,
  • cool,
  • walking through it,
  • standard,
  • involuntary,
  • apathetic,
  • laid-back,
  • indifferent,
  • going through the motions,
  • impersonal,
  • stock.
  •careless (adjective)
  • unheeding,
  • un circumspect,
  • in-accurate,
  • in-discreet,
  • indolent,
  • in considerate,
  • in cautious,
  • dis-regardful,
  • in advertent,
  • mindless,
  • un concerned,
  • in accurate,
  • in-considerate,
  • more uncircumspect,
  • most pococurante,
  • in discreet,
  • injudicious,
  • un-circumspect,
  • dis regardful,
  • more pococurante,
  • un-reflective,
  • more unreflective,
  • un reflective,
  • in-cautious,
  • un mindful,
  • napping,
  • un-mindful,
  • un heeding,
  • un guarded,
  • un observant,
  • reckless,
  • un-heeding,
  • un-concerned,
  • most uncircumspect,
  • in judicious,
  • in-different,
  • in-advertent,
  • in-judicious,
  • in different,
  • un-observant,
  • more napping,
  • un-guarded,
  • most unreflective,
  • most napping.
  •casual (adjective)
  • down home,
  • with drawn,
  • in curious,
  • more lowpressure,
  • folksy,
  • un-interested,
  • un fussiest,
  • re-mote,
  • laidback,
  • un fussier,
  • with-drawn,
  • un-fussiest,
  • more low-pressure,
  • lowpressure,
  • most low-pressure,
  • insouciant,
  • most lowpressure,
  • most low pressure,
  • un-fussy,
  • un interested,
  • un-fussier,
  • in-formal,
  • unfussier,
  • more low pressure,
  • in-curious,
  • un fussy,
  • in formal,
  • unfussiest.
  •cursory (adjective)
  • half assed,
  • most depthless,
  • halfassed,
  • more half-assed,
  • more halfassed,
  • half baked,
  • hit miss,
  • most halfassed,
  • more half assed,
  • more depthless,
  • shallower,
  • most half-assed,
  • most half assed,
  • halfbaked.
  •disinterested (adjective)
  • outside,
  • impartial,
  • just watching the clock,
  • uncurious,
  • not giving a damn,
  • non-partisan,
  • nonpartisan.
  •habitual (adjective)
  • repeated,
  • recurrent,
  • repetitious,
  • disciplined,
  • frequent.
  •half-hearted (adjective)
  • Half-hearted.
  •halfhearted (adjective)
  • half hearted.
  •hasty (adjective)
  • harefooted,
  • slambang,
  • chop-chop,
  • headlong.
  •hurried (adjective)
  • Subitaneous,
  • more subitaneous,
  • most subitaneous,
  • hectic.
  •indifferent (adjective)
  • detached,
  • unwilling,
  • nonchalant,
  • uncaring,
  • cold,
  • neutral,
  • passive,
  • lukewarm,
  • dispassionate,
  • easygoing.
  •mechanical (adjective)
  • more machine-driven,
  • stereo typed,
  • machine driven,
  • most programmed,
  • most machine driven,
  • most laborsaving,
  • auto-mated,
  • un changing,
  • un feeling,
  • machinedriven,
  • more machinedriven,
  • most machinedriven,
  • more programmed,
  • auto mated,
  • un-changing,
  • more laborsaving,
  • most machine-driven,
  • more machine driven.
  •neglectful (adjective)
  • clumsy,
  • thoughtless,
  • forgetful,
  • senile,
  • shoddy,
  • derelict,
  • inadvertent,
  • hit-and-miss,
  • neglectful,
  • inconsiderate,
  • bumbling,
  • unheedful,
  • Disregardful,
  • haphazard.
  •one-dimensional (adjective)
  • onedimensional,
  • one dimensional.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • disinterested,
  • cursory,
  • automatic,
  • on the surface,
  • casual,
  • unreflective,
  • hurried,
  • sketchy,
  • low pressure,
  • laborsaving,
  • superficial,
  • low-pressure,
  • smattery,
  • move it,
  • Pococurante,
  • one-dimensional,
  • Depthless,
  • summary,
  • tip of the iceberg,
  • mechanical,
  • unfussy,
  • in a nutshell,
  • breviloquent,
  • halfhearted,
  • shoaler,
  • laid back,
  • compendiary,
  • hasty,
  • machine-driven,
  • half-assed,
  • matter of fact,
  • careless,
  • a move on,
  • the lead out,
  • Uncircumspect.
  •quick (adjective)
  • quickest,
  • lead out,
  • post haste,
  • ex press,
  • ex-press,
  • more expeditive,
  • most expeditive,
  • post-haste,
  • Expeditive.
  •sketchy (adjective)
  • in-adequate,
  • out line,
  • un-finished,
  • more outline,
  • most outline,
  • out-line,
  • un finished,
  • in adequate,
  • in-sufficient.
  •summary (adjective)
  • more breviloquent,
  • in nutshell,
  • most run through,
  • more recapped,
  • more runthrough,
  • re-capped,
  • most breviloquent,
  • more compacted,
  • re-hashed,
  • most rehashed,
  • recapped,
  • most runthrough,
  • most run-through,
  • short sweet,
  • boiled down,
  • runthrough,
  • re hashed,
  • more rehashed,
  • more run-through,
  • most recapped,
  • more run through,
  • most compacted,
  • more compendiary,
  • most compendiary,
  • re capped.
  •superficial (adjective)
  • in-attentive,
  • flashest,
  • shoalest,
  • more quickfix,
  • most quick-fix,
  • tip iceberg,
  • most quickfix,
  • more quick fix,
  • tip of iceberg,
  • quickfix,
  • nodding,
  • skindeep,
  • skin deep,
  • quick-fix,
  • flasher,
  • tip the iceberg,
  • sur-face,
  • more smattery,
  • most quick fix,
  • on surface,
  • more warped,
  • most smattery,
  • more quick-fix,
  • most warped,
  • sur face.
  •uncritical (adjective)
  • unexacting,
  • Imperceptive,
  • easily pleased,
  • undiscerning.
  •unenthusiastic (adjective)
  • unexcited.

• adv

  •pro forma (adverb)
  • for form's sake,
  • done as a formality,
  • as a matter of form.

• adv.

  •pro forma (adverb)
  • as matter form,
  • for forms sake,
  • as a matter form,
  • done as formality,
  • for form sake,
  • as matter of form.

• n.

  •
  • like a bull in a china shop.
  •
  • concern.
  •cursory (noun)
  • shallow.
  •formal (noun)
  • formal.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • blind,
  • anyhow,
  • absent,
  • slipshod,
  • abstracted,
  • merrily,
  • dreamy,
  • inattention,
  • sideline,
  • faraway,
  • lax,
  • unguarded,
  • wander,
  • unmindful,
  • pro forma,
  • heedless,
  • passing,
  • inattentive,
  • cloth-eared,
  • guard,
  • sleep,
  • eye,
  • switch,
  • bull,
  • unwary,
  • talk,
  • switch off,
  • dreamily,
  • glaze,
  • slapdash,
  • remiss,
  • absently,
  • sloppy,
  • Absent-minded,
  • slaphappy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • devil-may-care,
  • quick and dirty,
  • self-destructive,
  • unconcern,
  • complacency,
  • lackadaisical,
  • tactless,
  • ham-handed,
  • gratuitous,
  • habitual.
  •
  • idle,
  • airy.
  •
  • loose.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • curt,
  • hollow,
  • prompt,
  • too little,
  • imprecise,
  • in default,
  • lacking,
  • smooth,
  • haphazardly,
  • failing,
  • ritual,
  • unfinished,
  • indisposed,
  • unconsenting,
  • imperfect,
  • vague,
  • uninvolved,
  • quickly,
  • glib,
  • rapid,
  • incomplete,
  • non-selective,
  • slightly,
  • untroubled,
  • at odds,
  • conventional,
  • brief,
  • uncritical,
  • resistant,
  • ill-furnished,
  • fleeting,
  • prescribed,
  • neuter,
  • incurious,
  • occasional,
  • peremptory,
  • fuzzy,
  • sulky,
  • balky,
  • unchanging,
  • ungracious,
  • instantaneous,
  • lame,
  • loth,
  • balking,
  • deficient,
  • promiscuous,
  • rashly,
  • minus,
  • speedy,
  • regardless,
  • opposed,
  • meaningless,
  • Unsolicitous,
  • uneventful,
  • ill-defined,
  • recalcitrant,
  • easy going,
  • tedious,
  • procedural,
  • spotty,
  • everyday,
  • stereotypic,
  • effortless,
  • neglect,
  • indistinct,
  • disagreeing,
  • promptly,
  • insufficient,
  • momentary,
  • slight,
  • businesslike,
  • Apathetical,
  • fractious,
  • flippant,
  • irresponsible,
  • patchy,
  • perfunctorily,
  • crude,
  • unworried,
  • degage,
  • thoughtlessly,
  • forced,
  • artificial,
  • unconsidered,
  • heedlessly,
  • run-of-the-mill,
  • unconscientious,
  • non-discriminatory,
  • restive,
  • terse,
  • reflex,
  • short,
  • sudden,
  • minimal,
  • superficially,
  • scratching the surface,
  • averse,
  • timely,
  • refractory,
  • incompetent,
  • customary,
  • unselective,
  • tepid,
  • robot-like,
  • lazy,
  • hurriedly,
  • oblivious,
  • impotent,
  • unpolished,
  • unready,
  • rough,
  • brisk,
  • instinctive,
  • regular,
  • turned-off,
  • boring,
  • transitory,
  • abrupt,
  • feebleness,
  • rushed,
  • transient,
  • skimpy,
  • hastily,
  • removed,
  • mutinous,
  • unprepared,
  • undiscriminating,
  • cosmetic,
  • complacent,
  • unfastidious,
  • token,
  • brusque,
  • unequal to,
  • Neglecting,
  • incautiously,
  • unvaried,
  • backward,
  • trite,
  • cursorily,
  • unspontaneous,
  • sullen,
  • rote,
  • unreached,
  • grudging,
  • Zealless,
  • listless,
  • Inexcitable,
  • accidentally,
  • tiresome,
  • unenthusiastic,
  • ephemeral,
  • blase,
  • unreasoning,
  • casually,
  • unimaginative,
  • disobedient,
  • scrappy,
  • insensible,
  • ataractic,
  • short of,
  • carelessly,
  • uncritically,
  • Renitent,
  • laggard,
  • uncompleted,
  • undiplomatic,
  • in arrear,
  • sketchily,
  • machine-like,
  • untactful,
  • recklessly,
  • distant,
  • indocile,
  • unrefined,
  • Fooling,
  • reluctant,
  • nominal,
  • incidentally,
  • rough-hewn,
  • Fragmentarily,
  • Respectless,
  • ordinary,
  • inadequate,
  • unthinking,
  • defective,
  • rapidly,
  • dismissive,
  • inexact,
  • impetuously,
  • wanting,
  • precipitately,
  • monotonous,
  • laconic,
  • immediate,
  • uninteresting,
  • loath,
  • precipitate,
  • disinclined,
  • shallowly,
  • indiscriminate,
  • hackneyed,
  • accidental,
  • unanxious,
  • slow,
  • unvarying,
  • not enough,
  • differing,
  • quick,
  • surface,
  • meager,
  • dilatory.

Paraphrases for Perfunctory:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    superficial.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    shallow, Above-ground, casual, summary, surficial.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    cursory, routine, cosmetic, surface, facile.

Antonyms for Perfunctory:

• adj.

  • automatic, unthinking
    complete, thoughtful, careful, precise, thorough, detailed.
  • Other antonyms:
    aware, ardent, passionate, conscientious, zealous, fervent, sensitive, keen, warmhearted, mindful, attentive, concerned, interested, warm, caring, heedful.