Cursory (adjective) - done rapidly and often superficially or without less attention to detail
Example: a cursory surveillance failed to cease marketing of formalin soaked vegetables.
Synonyms: superficial, hasty, brief, passing, quick, rapid, perfunctory, hurried, fleeting, desultory, drive-by, headlong, rash, precipitous, rushed
Antonyms: deliberate, unhurried, unrushed, thorough
Derivatives: cursoriness, cursorily
Veteran (noun) - somebody who has had considerable experience of a particular activity or occupation
Example: The veteran linguist Noam Chomsky opposed the assumptions of the Behaviorist Theory.
Synonyms: expert, past master, trouper, old-timer, old hand, doyen,
Antonyms: novice, beginner, colt, freshman, greenhorn, newcomer, rookie, tyro
Mainstream (noun) - the ideas, actions, and values that are most widely accepted by a group or society
Example: His thinking was in the American mainstream.
Synonyms: normal, typical, conventional, ordinary, majority, vanilla (UK, slang), middle-of-the-road
Antonyms: unconventional
Derivatives: mainstreamed
Offbeat (adjective) - strikingly unconventional
Example: They provide best offbeat news from overseas.
Synonyms: unconventional, eccentric, off-the-wall (informal), quirky, off-center, bizarre, different
Antonyms: common, ordinary, plain, usual, typical
Derivatives: offbeatness
Backlash (noun) - a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development
Example: The government is expecting an angry backlash from the underprivileged people due to present economical condition.
Synonyms: reaction, recoil, resentment, tangle, resistance, kickback
Antonyms: cause, question
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