| Main Entry: | skin-deep |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | superficial |
Synonyms: |
apparent, casual, cursory, empty, flimsy, meaningless, on the surface, one-dimensional, shallow, trivial |
| 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 |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
Antonyms: |
aware, considered, deep, intelligent, thoughtful |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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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