Sketchy: alternatives and connections

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

Incomplete correspondence.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.

The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling ther…

Incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance.

A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a…

Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lac…

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture…

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instru…

The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.