Superficial
Antonyms of SUPERFICIAL
Synonyms of SUPERFICIAL
- asinine, dilettante, medico, smooth-tongued, piffling, walking through it, peripheral, externally, outstanding, aspect, sunny side up, sunny-side up, dismissive, swimmy, field, surmount, papery, benign, up-beat, wee, volumetric, wrong-headed, tedious, vague, limit, chiffon, quick fix, bloodless, crude, edge, unpersuasive, narrow mind, volatile, flatulent, heavy, fallacious, abrupt, spiritless, bottom, complacency, piddly, cut-rate, pretentious, border, Non-essential, Light-hearted, cut rate, spherical, width, colorless, back, minor, featherbrained, rude, meager, affected, speedy, unreasoning, pedestrian, ankle-deep, sheeting, fundamental, low-level, flimsy, shelfer, deceptive, cursorily, dreary, fuzzy, publish, wooden, touch-and-go, easygoing, easily pleased, uncritical, look, scratching the surface, vacuous, too little too late, vain, corner, outermost, low-spirited, quick-fix, characterless, obverse, hate, smart alecky, motley, swift, laid back, proud, dilettanteish, arbitrary, bump, meter, epidermic, dry, Fribbling, touching-up, likely, campier, inessential, campiest, caliber, high falutin, arrogant, high-flown, Half-learned, unexacting, nugatory, room, inane, empty, bounds, dishonest, way, beat, boundary, self-centered, uncomplicated, Podunk, partial, nonessential, undone, fluent, externals, plodding, unctuous, detest, magniloquent, thin, uninterested, swing, advent, frothy, expendable, urgent, character trait, campy, chirpier, Depthless, pretended, open, outwardly, easy, bound, hypocritical, ill-defined, incidental, vertiginous, transcend, one-track mind, fast talk, minor league, giddy, creature, hollow, ungrounded, watch, small-time, bevel, conventionalized, glitzy, evanescent, physician, unsystematic, narrow-minded, hasty, flighty, unread, expanse, elephantine, insubstantial, prompt, airy-fairy, sidewise, nominal, unpolished, desultory, flying, misjudging, phoning it in, external, unimportant, pallid, legalistic, not many, warped, thumbnail, promptly, undetailed, short, dismal, low, shape, immature, false, scornful, unfinished, banal, Drearisome, no great shakes, cubic, foolish, Hyperspace, cool, amplitude, shoal, airy, bigotry, formalistic, unessential, tasteless, ostentatious, judgmental, view, unlettered, operatic, house of cards, loathe, dizzy, patchy, pass, superficially, declare, concise, businesslike, outdo, three-dimensional, negligible, observable, side, vacant, senseless, egoistic, physical, fatuous, abhor, ornate, furious, tongue in cheek, quick, unmethodical, one-sided, untroublesome, fluffy, footling, misleading, sounding, birdwitted, immediate, scope, momentary, insouciant, apparently, manner, distant, light touch, rushed, semblance, breadth, trifling, irrelevant, pushover, barren, prima facie, Designless, property, rough, going through the motions, etiolated, pointless, showy, illusory, prejudiced, Sophomoric, extent, thoughtless, untrustworthy, reveal, blah, inconsequential, insincere, extern, one-dimensional, fluid, terrestrial, glib, penny ante, fugitive, complacent, ready, ostensible, second class, tinsel, tiny, unexplicit, rinkydink, emptyheaded, conceited, like a bull in a china shop, unlearned, surpass, Dabbling, space, puny, material, festinate, Controvertible, unnecessary, lightweight, rapid, facetious, obstinacy, not the main, uninformed, skin-deep, extrinsic, purblind, floatation, visible, self-applauding, alleged, facile, show, secondary, beside the point, diameter, announce, cortical, off, gooky, tip of the iceberg, hurried, boastful, fleeting, inflated, dilettantish, dusty, petty, sweep, foreign, chirpy, niggling, fruitless, illiterate, fragmentary, assumed, fringe, fiddling, afield, offhand, float, slender, otiose, lower, picayune, theatrical, exaggerated, exceed, lightly, secular, self-flattering, commonplace, worldly, abortive, extravagant, shallower, extraterritorial, Preening, smug, cavalier, half-baked, meretricious, grandiose, unspontaneous, feverish, pithy, not serious, paltry, shallow, outside, supercilious, half-cocked, hardly enough, unselective, feigned, half-assed, pending, shortsighted, poky, presumable, outmost, suave, from within, aloof, formal, flipper, flotation, topical, obvious, smattery, stylized, proportional, apathetic, removed, spatiotemporal, fade, outlying, apparent, evident, offhanded, temporal, twopenny, smooth, silly, frivolous, impersonal, short-sighted, slipshod, light, skin, confines, not much, last-minute, diminished, unrefined, dead, possible, inconsiderable, lamebrained, of no consequence/of little consequence, outdoors, superficies, gossamer, perfunctory, slap-bang, effortless, trivial, narcissistic, professed, Dryasdust, bird-brained, miniature, uneducated, periphery, nonchalant, enunciate, bootless, proclaim, Fribble, tell, Formalist, harefooted, birdbrained, sidelong, slambang, so-called, appearance, shoaler, means, windy, stiff, la-di-da, vainglorious, Sciolistic, hammy, succinct, facial, jeweled, cursory, vapid, automatic, smattering, wholesale, indiscriminate, Shallow-pated, to the eye, light-headed, unceremonious, impermanent, on the surface, unthinking, apace, flippant, slight, hastily, surface, insignificant, lightheaded, ponderous, cast, flashy, supposed, amateurish, area, relaxed, presumed, undiscerning, modal, slapdash, artful, fast-talking, stretch, mere, chirpiest, afar, outer, nodding, Rattle-brained, shoaly, space-time, arid, jejune, idle, scatterbrained, rough-hewn, mickey mouse, piddling, forth, blank, Glancing, advertise, Ungifted, lightest, superficiality, routine, smooth-spoken, depreciate, stodgy, seeming, scrimpy, of no avail, local, face, odium theologicum, headlong, airheaded, fugacious, quickly, brim, two-dimensional, perky, plausible, delusive, ostensive, stuffy, belittling, beside point, radius, summary, empty-headed, tangential, the eye, mechanical, nitty-gritty, pedantic, unproductive, Amphibological, instant, rapidly, Perimetric, egocentric, looking, compass, worthless, unenlightened, grandiloquent, hardly any, lifeless, haughty, shoestring, informal, bombastic, green, extension, mundane, sideward, slick, spread, range, early stage, useless, away, pedantry, chop-chop, trite, indifferent, uninvolved, bodily, unconsidered, toward the edge, example, robot-like, Hypercriticism, bore, not rich, tame, simple, under/in the guise of, Fastuous, vacuity, two-bit, spatial, passing, unbookish, public, insipid, apex, compact, Imperceptive, specious, stereoscopic, unavailing, solemn, draggy, fleshly, rinky-dink, superficial, no-account, indistinct, meaningless, futile, foppish, incomplete, overelaborate, base, inattentive, Feather-brained, appearing, dimensional, non-spiritual, learned, unserious, discoid, despise, remiss, brief, ho-hum, outward, little, amateur, frontal, sophistic, lone, unhelpful, air, Picayunish, end, minimal, Formulary, few, publicize, cold, cosmetic, simple-minded, unfruitful, jaundiced, token, conceivable, slow, self-admiring, carnal, hare-brained, outwards, epidermal, jocular, small, exoteric, in firm, shallow-rooted, valueless, casual, Semblant, unconcerned, sterile, effect, pale, manifest, out, knee-deep, roundabout, noncritical, sketchy, Inexcitable, expansion, cubical, shallowly, going through motions, smooth-talking, Unlively, flat, lackadaisical, promulgate, abroad, skimpy, heedless, leaden, inexact, expeditious, effete, casuistic, careless, flash, pompous, unprofound, extraneous, unsubstantial, snap, exterior, perceptible, imperfect, imprecise, ignorant, self-satisfied, latitude, dull, lippy, purported, undiscriminating, Styling, catchpenny.
Examples of usage:
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Many authors of his day seemed more novel and unique to the superficial. "Ernest Maltravers, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Every Christian who has made even a superficial study of the human constitution recognises in it three distinct constituents- Spirit, Soul, and Body. "Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries" by Annie Besant
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A very superficial reply! "Betty Trevor" by Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
