| perfunctory | | |
| adj. | 1. casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory | hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough.; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" |
| ~ careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful.; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark" |
| adj. | 2. perfunctory, pro forma | as a formality only.; "a one-candidate pro forma election" |
| ~ formal | being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress).; "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" |
| shallow | | |
| n. (object) | 1. shallow, shoal | a stretch of shallow water. |
| ~ body of water, water | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean).; "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" |
| v. (change) | 2. shallow, shoal | make shallow.; "The silt shallowed the canal" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| v. (change) | 3. shallow, shoal | become shallow.; "the lake shallowed over time" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| adj. | 4. shallow | lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center.; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field" |
| ~ ankle-deep, knee-deep | coming only to the ankle or knee. |
| ~ fordable | shallow enough to be crossed by walking or riding on an animal or in a vehicle.; "the stream was fordable" |
| ~ neritic | relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast.; "neritic fauna" |
| ~ reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly | full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals.; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters" |
| adj. | 5. shallow | not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply.; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance" |
| ~ wakeful, light | (of sleep) easily disturbed.; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night" |
| adj. | 6. shallow | lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious.; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious" |
| ~ superficial | concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually.; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences" |
| superficial | | |
| adj. | 1. superficial | concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually.; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences" |
| ~ careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful.; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark" |
| ~ outward | relating to physical reality rather than with thoughts or the mind.; "a concern with outward beauty rather than with inward reflections" |
| ~ ostensible, seeming, apparent | appearing as such but not necessarily so.; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty" |
| ~ dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic | showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" |
| ~ facile | arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth.; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" |
| ~ glib | marked by lack of intellectual depth.; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question" |
| ~ looking, sounding | appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms.; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk" |
| ~ shallow | lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious.; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious" |
| ~ skin-deep | penetrating no deeper than the skin:.; "her beauty is only skin-deep" |
| ~ frivolous | not serious in content or attitude or behavior.; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" |
| adj. (pertain) | 2. superficial | of, affecting, or being on or near the surface.; "superficial measurements"; "the superficial area of the wall"; "a superficial wound" |
| adj. | 3. superficial, trivial | of little substance or significance.; "a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections" |
| ~ unimportant, insignificant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force. |
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