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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without depth, detail |
| Synonyms: | apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, depthless, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, quick-fix, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep, slapdash, slight, smattery, summary, surface, tip of the iceberg, trivial, uncritical, warped |
| Notes: | superficial means not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually or of little substance or significance, while superfluous means more than is wanted or is sufficient or rendered unnecessary by superabundance |
| Antonyms: | analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough |
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