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one-dimensional
adjective as in superficial
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- 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
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shoal
- silly
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
Example Sentences
The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans: “We need to move beyond one-dimensional narratives of exceptionalism.”
Romney is steadfast in constantly casting the election as a one-dimensional referendum on the incumbent president.
Our friendship is one-dimensional: we are both passionately committed to Chen.
Hollywood is comfortable with one-dimensional caricatures of racism.
Franzen is just as critical of self-consciously tricky fiction as he is of “schmaltzy, one-dimensional” fiction.
But in the one-dimensional time the same bit of matter occupies different portions of time.
In one-dimensional geometry positions and measurements in a single line only are admitted.
No, not along this line of one-dimensional, linear, simplistic form of determinism.
That informants have a one-dimensional view of earlier periods in Shoshone history may well be expected.
A man becoming part of our folklore becomes a fey, one-dimensional, shadow-image of reality.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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