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| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not deep |
| Synonyms: | cursory, empty, flat, hollow, sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial, unsound, depthless, inconsiderable |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | deep |
| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unintelligent, ignorant |
| Synonyms: | cursory, empty, empty-headed, farcical, featherbrained, flighty, flimsy, foolish, frivolous, frothy, half-baked*, hollow, idle, inane, lightweight, meaningless, paltry, petty, piddling, puerile, simple, sketchy, skin-deep*, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial, uncritical, unthinking, vain, wishy-washy* |
| Antonyms: | aware, considered, deep, intelligent, thoughtful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 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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| Main Entry: | cursory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, hasty |
| Synonyms: | brief, careless, desultory, fast, half-baked*, haphazard, hit or miss*, hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid, shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary, superficial, swift, uncritical, depthless, half-assed |
| Antonyms: | complete, meticulous, painstaking, perfect, thorough, unhurried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easy; easily mastered |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adept, adroit, apparent, articulate, breeze, child's play, cursory, deft, dexterous, easy as pie*, effortless, fast talk, flip*, fluent, glib, hasty, light, obvious, picnic*, practiced, proficient, pushover*, quick, ready, shallow, simple, skillful, slick*, smooth, superficial, uncomplicated, untroublesome, voluble |
| Antonyms: | arduous, complicated, confusing, difficult, hard, involved, laborious, profound |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flatulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, long-winded |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | brief, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | frivolous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, silly |
| Synonyms: | barmy*, childish, dizzy*, empty-headed*, facetious, featherbrained*, flighty, flip, flippant, foolish, gay, giddy*, harebrained*, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile, light, minor, niggling*, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful, pointless, puerile, scatterbrained*, senseless, shallow, sportive, superficial, tongue-in-cheek*, unimportant, volatile, whimsical, ill-considered, light-minded, nonserious, not serious, unprofound |
| Antonyms: | grave, mature, sensible, serious, solemn, thoughtful, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ignorant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, unknowing |
| Synonyms: | dense, green*, illiterate, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, moronic, naive, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unlearned, unmindful, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless, apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, imbecilic, misinformed, nescient, unconversant, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlettered, unread |
| Antonyms: | aware, competent, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate, talented, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indiscriminate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random, chaotic |
| Synonyms: | aimless, assorted, broad, careless, confused, desultory, extensive, general, haphazard, heterogeneous, hit-or-miss*, jumbled, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, motley*, multifarious, promiscuous, purposeless, shallow, spot, superficial, sweeping, uncritical, unplanned, varied, variegated, wholesale*, wide, designless, imperceptive, mingled, unconsidered, undiscriminating, unmethodical, unselective, unsystematic |
| Antonyms: | chosen, critical, definite, discriminatory, methodical, particular, selective, specific, systematic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | light-headed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | silly; feeling faint |
| Synonyms: | changeable, delirious, dizzy, empty, featherbrained*, fickle, flighty, flippant, foolish, frivolous, giddy, harebrained*, hazy, punchy*, rocky, scatterbrained*, shallow, superficial, swimming, tired, trifling, vertiginous, whirling, woozy*, gaga, reeling, swimmy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, sober, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parochial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, restricted |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, liberal, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | passing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brief, casual |
| Synonyms: | cursory, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, fugitive, hasty, impermanent, momentary, quick, shallow, short, short-lived, slight, superficial, temporary, transient, transitory, fugacious, glancing |
| Antonyms: | lasting, long-lasting, permanent |
| Main Entry: | petty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, insignificant |
| Synonyms: | base, casual, cheap, contemptible, frivolous, inferior, irrelevant, junior, lesser, light, little, lower, measly, minor, narrow-minded, negligible, niggling*, paltry, peanut*, picayune, piddling*, scratch, secondary, shabby, shallow, slight, small, small-minded, subordinate, trifling, two-bit*, unimportant, inconsequent, inconsiderable, inessential, nickel-and-dime, penny-ante, pettifogging, shoestring* |
| Antonyms: | consequential, important, major, necessary, prominent, significant, useful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shelf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jutting, flat area or piece |
| Synonyms: | bank, bracket, console, counter, cupboard, ledge, mantle, rack, reef, ridge, rock, shallow, shoal, mantelpiece |
| Main Entry: | sketchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, incomplete |
| Synonyms: | coarse, crude, cursory, defective, faulty, imperfect, inadequate, insufficient, introductory, outline, perfunctory, preliminary, shallow, skimpy, slight, superficial, uncritical, unfinished, vague, depthless, scrappy |
| Antonyms: | complete, detailed, finished, full |
| Main Entry: | skin-deep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superficial |
| Synonyms: | apparent, casual, cursory, empty, flimsy, meaningless, shallow, trivial, on the surface, one-dimensional |
| Main Entry: | superficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without depth, detail |
| Synonyms: | apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked*, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep*, slapdash*, slight, summary, surface, trivial, uncritical, depthless, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, quick-fix, smattery, tip of the iceberg, warped |
| Antonyms: | analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surface |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | external |
| Synonyms: | apparent, covering, exterior, outer, outside, outward, shallow, shoal, superficial, top, depthless, facial |
| Antonyms: | central, core, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | trifling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insignificant, worthless |
| Synonyms: | banal, dinky*, empty, frivolous, hollow, idle, idling, inane, inconsequential, insipid, jejune, measly, minuscule, negligible, niggling*, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, puny, shallow, silly, slight, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, vain, valueless, vapid, forget it, inconsiderable, loitering, no big deal, no big thing |
| Antonyms: | important, significant, useful, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncritical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | casual, unfussy |
| Synonyms: | careless, cursory, imprudent, inaccurate, indiscriminate, offhand, perfunctory, shallow, slipshod, superficial, uninformed, unthinking, easily pleased, imperceptive, imprecise, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unexacting, unperceptive, unselective |
| Antonyms: | critical, discriminating, formal, fussy, important |
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