Sketchy

Definition: Sketchy

Sketchy

Adjective

1. Giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sketchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Sketchy

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Incompleteness

Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).

Noncompletion

Adjective: not completed; Verb: incomplete; uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.

Crosswords: Sketchy

Music

• Sketchy 1 [EP] (reference)

• Sketchy Ep (reference)

• Sketchy EP #2 [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Economic History

Senegal

Although values of Senegalese subsidiaries or operations of foreign investors are sketchy, it is estimated that France is overwhelmingly the most important foreign investor, and French interests control many sectors in the economy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

skematik (diagrammatic, schematic), pa hollësira, i përgjithshëm (all out, appellative, blanket, common, ecumenical, general, generic, overall, public, universal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزيل (exiguous, gaunt, haggard, lean, meager, meagre, miserable, peak, peaky, pitiful, scanty, scrawny, short, sickly, skimp, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, spare, sparing, stingy, watery, wretched), ‏ناقص (amiss, bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, odd, reducible, revoked, scant, truncate, unfinished, wanting), ‏غير مفصل, ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏تمهيدي (draft, initiative, introductory, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, preparatory, propaedeutic), ‏سطحي (cursory, exterior, external, facile, frothy, perfunctory, peripheral, primary, shallow-minded, skin deep, slight, superficial, surface, unexperienced, unintelligent), ‏عام (catholic, common, encyclic, general, generic, gross, historical, open, prevailing, public, rife, universal, year), ‏ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схематичен (schematic), непълен (imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, odd, partial, pendant, pendent, short, unaccomplished), бегъл (cursory, fugitive, hurried, superficial, surface), повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty). (various references)

Chinese 

概略. (various references)

Czech

povrchní (airy, casual, cheap, desultory, dollish, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, perfunctory, scrappy, shallow, skin deep, superficial), kusý (incomplete). (various references)

Farsi 

ناقص (Half, Halfbaked, Imperfect, Incomplete, Incorrect, Malformed, Mutilate, Rudimentary, Skimpy, Unperfect, Violator), سطحی (Planar, Shallow, Superficial, Surface), سردستی , ازروی عجله (Precipitous). (various references)

French

superficiel (skin deep), vaseux, vague, préliminaire, peu détaillé, incomplet, faible. (various references)

German

skizzenhaft (roughly sketched, sketchily), unklar (blurred, cloudy, doubtful, equivocal, equivocally, foggy, hazy, incoherent, indefinite, indefinitely, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinctly, inexplicit, misty, murky, nebulous, nondistinctive, obscure, obscurely, opaque, unclarified, unclear, vague, woolly), oberflächlich (cursorily, facile, frivolous, futile, light minded, light-headed, lukewarm, perfunctorily, shallow, sketchily, superficial, trifling, trivial), lückenhaft (deficient, full of gaps, incomplete, patchy, scrappy), flüchtig (brief, casual, cursorily, cursory, desultory, elusive, ephemeral, fleeting, fleetingly, flighty, fugitive, fugitively, momentary, non-permanent, passing, perfunctory, quick, sketchily, slapdash, slight, summarily, volatile, volatilely, voltile), dürftig (feeble, impoverished, insubstantial, lame, meager, meagre, miserable, necessitous, paltry, pathetic, penurious, penuriously, pitiable, poor, poorly, scant, scanty, skimpily, skimpy, slender, spare, sparse, sparsely, tenuous, thinly, unsubstantial, wretched), bruchstückhaft (fragmentary, scrappy). (various references)

Greek 

σκιαγραφικόσ (in outline), σε γεννικές γραμμές, πρόχειροσ (extemporaneous, handily, handy, improvised, makeshift, rough), πρόχειρος (handy, haphazard, makeshift, rough), ατελήσ (deficient, half-baked, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרפרף (lambent, superficial), לא מפורט, שטחי (cursory, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, superficial, surface), כללי (bulk, common, general, generic, universal). (various references)

Hungarian

vázlatos (adumbrative, diagrammatic, schematic, scratchy). (various references)

Italian

torbido (cloudy, dark, indeterminate, muddy, opaque, turbid), approssimativo (approximate, imprecise, rough, superficial), abbozzato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

大雑把 (broad, rough), 大ざっぱ (broad, rough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおざっぱ (broad, rough). (various references)

Korean 

대강. (various references)

Manx

neuchronnal (camouflaged, garbled, imperceptible, inconspicuous, indistinct, indistinguishable, unclear, vague). (various references)

Pig Latin

etchyskay.(various references)

Portuguese

superficial (aboveground, above-ground, amateurish, flashy, flimsy, flippant, frothy, lip-deep, perfunctory, shallow, skin-deep, superficial, trivial), sem pormenores (sketch-map), rudimentar (elemental, elementary, inchoate, rudimentary), incompleto (defective, deficient, fragmentary, half, half-way, imperfect, incomplete, pendant, pendent, unaccomplished, unfinished), impreciso (blear, fuzzy, hit-and-miss, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, indeterminate, lacklustre, vague, wrong), esboçado (drawn), delineado (delineation, lineate). (various references)

Romanian

sumar (abstract, compendious, concise, docket, epitome, hasty, resume, summarily, summary), schematic (schematic, schematically), vag (dim, distant, dull, dusty, evasive, evasively, faint, general, hazy, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, lax, loose, loosely, misty, muddy, nebulous, remote, shadowy, slight, vague, washy), însãilat (tacked). (various references)

Russian 

схематический (diagrammatic, schematic), отрывочный (desultory, fragmentary, snatchy, snippy, touch and go), легкий (airy, cheap, cushy, delicate, easy, easygoing, effortless, ethereal, facile, flimsy, gentle, gossamery, light, light weight, lightsome, lightweight, mild, potty, runaway, toilless, unlabored, unlaboured), поверхностный (cursory, lip-deep, perfunctory, perfunctory inspection, skin deep, skin-deep, sophomoric, superficial, surface). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nedovršen (half-done, unaccomplished), kao skica. (various references)

Spanish

sin detalles, vago (bone-idle, erratic, faint, idle, Idler, lazybones, loiterer, loose, nameless, shadowy, slacker, slouch, sloven, tramp, truant, twilight, vacant, vague), incompleto (incomplete, scrappy, uncompleted), abocetado. (various references)

Swedish

skissartad, oklar (cloudy, dim, fuzzy, incoherent, indefinite, indistinct, misty, nebulous, obscure, opaque, unclear, woolly). (various references)

Thai

คร่าวๆ (rough, some, superficial). (various references)

Turkish

yarım yamalak (after a fashion, half-way, incompletely, loose, perfunctory, slipshod, slovenly), kabataslak (in outline, rough, roughly, rude), kabaca (clownishly, coarsely, disobligingly, foul, impolitely, in bold outline, loose, rough, roughly, rudely, shortly, vulgarly), eksik (defective, deficiency, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shortfall, shy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), baştan savma (evasive, patchily, patchy, perfunctory, run around, salvo, slapdash, slipshod, slovenly), üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, shallow, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling). (various references)

Ukrainian

схематичний (diagrammatic, outlinear, schematic), неміцний (insubstantial, rotten, shaky, sleazy, slight, ticklish, unsubstantial, unwholesome, weak), ескізний, поверховий (cursory, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, overly, perfunctory, shallow, skin deep, superficial). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sơ s� i (meager, meagre, slim), phác (rough, roughly), đại cương (apercu, conspectus). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sketchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scetch, Schetky, sdetch, Sethy, sietch, Skeoch, sketche, Sketty, skitch, skutch. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chesty, kythes, scythe, sketch.

-2 letters: chest, hecks, ketch, khets, kytes, kythe, techy, tykes, yechs.

-3 letters: cyst, etch, eths, heck, hest, hets, hyte, keys, khet, kyte, sect, stey, stye, syce, syke, they, tyes, tyke, yech.

-4 letters: eth, hes, het, hey, key, sec, set, she, shy, sky, sty, the, thy, tsk, tye, yeh, yes, yet.

-5 letters: eh.

+2 letters: latchkeys, sketchily.