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superficial
adjective as in without depth, detail
Strongest matches
cursory, frivolous, one-dimensional, perfunctory, silly, sketchy, slight, trivial
Weak matches
apparent, casual, cosmetic, depthless, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, general, glib, half-baked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, nodding, on the surface, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, peripheral, quick-fix, seeming, shallow, shoal, skin-deep, slapdash, smattery, summary, surface, tip of the iceberg, uncritical, warped
Example Sentences
Partridge, as Coogan reminds us, is like "every superficial" celebrity who just wants to have a public profile.
"Since social media has taken over, it's a very superficial way of understanding a place… You just see a picture, and then you go."
Speaking to a group of journalists, Pezeshkian accused foreign powers of seeking a superficial pretext to set the region ablaze, insisting that, despite previous threats, Iran would not quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The British Dental Association Cymru acknowledged "some important wins" but said "plastering over a few of the biggest cracks is just superficial repairs" and the true cost of care was not reflected.
“He’s very sad about what happened ... He ended up with a lot of superficial injuries and I think she probably did too,” Dugan said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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