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shoalest
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not deep |
| Synonyms: | cursory, depthless, empty, flat, hollow, inconsiderable, sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial, unsound |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | deep |
| Main Entry: | surface |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | external |
| Synonyms: | apparent, covering, depthless, exterior, facial, outer, outside, outward, shallow, shoal, superficial, top |
| Antonyms: | central, core, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | one-dimensional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superficial |
| 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, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
ankle-deep, eurybathyic, just enough to wet one's feet, knee-deep, neritic, shallow, shoal, shoaly, skin-deep, superficial
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