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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superficial |
| Synonyms: | apparent, casual, cursory, empty, flimsy, meaningless, on the surface, one-dimensional, shallow, trivial |
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| Main Entry: | superficial |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | trivial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not important |
| Synonyms: | atomic, beside the point, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, inappreciable, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, microscopic, minor, minute, momentary, negligible, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, valueless, vanishing, worthless |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile |
| 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
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| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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ankle-deep, eurybathyic, just enough to wet one's feet, knee-deep, neritic, shallow, shoal, shoaly, skin-deep, superficial
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