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shallow - 20 thesaurus results
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
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Main Entry: shallow
Part of Speech: adjective
Related
Adjectives:
ankle-deep, eurybathyic, just enough to wet one's feet, knee-deep, neritic, shallow, shoal, shoaly, skin-deep, superficial
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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