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