| Main Entry: | cursory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, hasty |
Synonyms: |
brief, careless, depthless, desultory, fast, half-assed, half-baked, haphazard, hit or miss, hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid, shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary, superficial, swift, uncritical |
| Notes: | cursory means 'superficial'; cursorial is 'pertaining or adapted to running' |
Antonyms: |
complete, meticulous, painstaking, perfect, thorough, unhurried |
| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not deep |
Synonyms: |
cursory, depthless, empty, flat, hollow, inconsiderable, sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial, unsound |
Antonyms: |
deep |
| Main Entry: | sketchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, incomplete |
Synonyms: |
coarse, crude, cursory, defective, depthless, faulty, imperfect, inadequate, insufficient, introductory, outline, perfunctory, preliminary, scrappy, shallow, skimpy, slight, superficial, uncritical, unfinished, vague |
Antonyms: |
complete, detailed, finished, full |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
Related
Adjectives: |
shallow, ankle-deep, eurybathyic, just enough to wet one's feet, knee-deep, neritic, shoal, shoaly, skin-deep, superficial
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