What is another word for superficial?
650 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ sˈuːpəfˈɪʃə͡l], [ sˈuːpəfˈɪʃəl], [ s_ˈuː_p_ə_f_ˈɪ_ʃ_əl]
Superficial is a word that expresses the idea of being shallow or surface-level, and there are plenty of synonyms that convey this sense. Some common synonyms for superficial include cursory, shallow, skin-deep, and surface-level. Other options include trivial, flimsy, facade, and insubstantial. These synonyms all describe something that is superficial or lacking in depth, whether it's a person, an idea, or an aspect of a situation. Superficiality can be frustrating or unappealing, but it's a common aspect of modern life, and having a range of synonyms for superficial can help us communicate our feelings about it more effectively.
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Similar words for superficial:
- affected (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- apparent (adjective)
- arbitrary (adjective)
- benign (adjective)
- cosmetic (adjective)
- cursory (adjective)
- dramatic (adjective)
- exterior (adjective)
- external (adjective)
- extrinsic (adjective)
- facile (adjective)
- flatulent (adjective)
- flimsy (adjective)
- flippant (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- hasty (adjective)
- hurried (adjective)
- idle (adjective)
- indiscriminate (adjective)
- la-di-da (adjective)
- light (adjective)
- light-headed (adjective)
- lightheaded (adjective)
- meretricious (adjective)
- ornate (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outer (adjective)
- outward (adjective)
- passing (adjective)
- perfunctory (adjective)
- peripheral (adjective)
- picayune (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- senseless (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- side (adjective)
- sketchy (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- surface (adjective)
- theatrical (adjective)
- thin (adjective)
- uncritical (adjective)
- unimportant (adjective)
- vacuous (adjective)
- vague (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- dilettante (noun)
- dilettanteish (noun)
- dilettantish (noun)
- flimsy (noun)
- glib (noun)
- insignificant (noun)
- looking (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- seeming (noun)
- sounding (noun)
- superficial (noun)
- other synonyms
- at first sight
- unlettered
Synonyms for Superficial:
adj.
• affected (adjective)- in-sincere,
- in sincerer,
- more put-on,
- hammiest,
- most put on,
- schmaltzy,
- sham,
- pretentious,
- pre-tended,
- un natural,
- more faked,
- un-natural,
- selfconscious,
- high falutin',
- in sincere,
- insincere,
- most faked,
- puton,
- more counterfeited,
- more puton,
- in-sincerer,
- hammier,
- in-sincerest,
- most puton,
- most put-on,
- hamest,
- most counterfeited,
- self conscious,
- over-done,
- simulated,
- hamer,
- more put on,
- over done,
- more affected,
- most playacting,
- pre tended,
- ostentatious,
- fraudest,
- fraud,
- in sincerest,
- frauder,
- more playacting.
- in-consistent,
- in judicious,
- in consistent,
- un reasonable,
- injudicious,
- un-reasonable,
- un-accountable,
- un-scientific,
- offhand,
- un accountable,
- wayward,
- un scientific,
- in-judicious.
- more depthless,
- hit miss,
- halfbaked,
- more halfassed,
- half assed,
- most half-assed,
- most half assed,
- most halfassed,
- half baked,
- more half-assed,
- halfassed,
- most depthless,
- more half assed.
- most exoteric,
- extra-terrestrial,
- most extraterritorial,
- extraterrestrial,
- out lying,
- more extraterrestrial,
- out-door,
- most extraterrestrial,
- Extra-territorial,
- out-lying,
- extra terrestrial,
- outer most,
- more exoteric,
- out-most,
- out door,
- more extraterritorial,
- outer-most,
- extra territorial,
- out most.
- more cut rate,
- in conceivable,
- house cards,
- lamest,
- un-grounded,
- more rinkydink,
- most controvertible,
- most cutrate,
- most rinkydink,
- un sounder,
- un persuasive,
- un satisfactory,
- un believable,
- un-persuasive,
- un sound,
- in-adequate,
- more chiffon,
- more unpersuasive,
- in-credible,
- most cut rate,
- more cut-rate,
- in-conceivable,
- in-substantial,
- illogical,
- most ungrounded,
- rickety,
- most unpersuasive,
- cutrate,
- in-firm,
- un-substantial,
- un-sounder,
- in substantial,
- un grounded,
- more cutrate,
- most papery,
- gossamer,
- most cut-rate,
- un-believable,
- un-sound,
- most chiffon,
- un substantial,
- in firmer,
- trans-parent,
- in-firmer,
- trans parent,
- in firmest,
- in credible,
- more ungrounded,
- more papery,
- more controvertible,
- meager,
- un-soundest,
- in-firmest,
- in adequate,
- trifling,
- un-satisfactory.
- playful,
- smartalecky,
- in solent,
- lippier,
- flighty,
- dis-respectful,
- lippiest,
- in-solent,
- dis respectful.
- facetious,
- un important,
- more light-minded,
- un-profound,
- ill-considered,
- more nonserious,
- most nonserious,
- un-important,
- empty headed,
- nonserious,
- more light minded,
- non serious,
- un profoundest,
- un profound,
- light minded,
- un-profoundest,
- unprofoundest,
- un profounder,
- un-profounder,
- ill considered,
- tongue-in-cheek,
- most sportive,
- most light minded,
- illconsidered,
- non-serious,
- sportive,
- light-minded,
- more lightminded,
- unprofound,
- unprofounder,
- most lightminded,
- most light-minded,
- lightminded.
- un availing,
- un-productive,
- most unhelpful,
- un successful,
- idler,
- in-significant,
- un-necessary,
- more unhelpful,
- un productive,
- un-successful,
- un-availing,
- un-helpful,
- un helpful,
- irrelevant,
- un necessary,
- in significant.
- undiscriminating,
- Designless,
- unmethodical,
- wholesale,
- motley,
- Imperceptive,
- unselective,
- unsystematic.
- chirpy,
- wee,
- lightest,
- fragmentary,
- sunny-side up,
- shoestring,
- chirpier,
- perky,
- chirpiest,
- tiny,
- inconsiderable,
- hardly any,
- not rich,
- up-beat,
- hardly enough,
- not much,
- sunny side up,
- not many.
- Flaunting,
- more jeweled,
- highwrought,
- high wrought,
- glitzier,
- more embroidered,
- be decked,
- most embroidered,
- more overelaborate,
- re-splendent,
- High-wrought,
- most high wrought,
- over-elaborate,
- over elaborate,
- more high wrought,
- most highwrought,
- more bedecked,
- most high-wrought,
- most jeweled,
- most bedecked,
- more high-wrought,
- more highwrought,
- be-decked,
- most overelaborate,
- glitziest,
- glossy,
- most ornamented,
- more ornamented.
- unexplicit,
- scrimpy,
- hurried,
- lamebrained,
- flippant,
- papery,
- cosmetic,
- high falutin,
- indiscriminate,
- ornate,
- chiffon,
- of no avail,
- frivolous,
- campier,
- unreasoning,
- glitzy,
- affected,
- light-headed,
- Depthless,
- walking through it,
- cursory,
- ostensive,
- exterior,
- cut rate,
- surface,
- slight,
- la-di-da,
- birdbrained,
- facile,
- airheaded,
- campiest,
- going through the motions,
- ostensible,
- too little too late,
- unhelpful,
- external,
- vacuous,
- Amphibological,
- perfunctory,
- picayune,
- campy,
- facial,
- benign,
- Semblant,
- thin,
- overelaborate,
- apparent,
- judgmental,
- sketchy,
- passing,
- house of cards,
- early stage,
- exoteric,
- half-assed,
- hasty,
- jeweled,
- extraterritorial,
- operatic,
- outward,
- cut-rate,
- phoning it in,
- tongue in cheek,
- side,
- emptyheaded,
- arbitrary,
- unpersuasive,
- vague,
- rinkydink,
- flatulent,
- in firm,
- lightheaded,
- not serious,
- meretricious,
- ungrounded,
- beside point,
- going through motions,
- peripheral,
- laid back,
- lippy,
- piddly,
- light,
- Controvertible,
- hammy,
- outer,
- idle,
- smart alecky,
- flimsy,
- Perimetric.
- in-voluntary,
- dis-interested,
- in-different,
- laidback,
- stocker,
- in voluntary,
- un concerned,
- un-aware,
- un-concerned,
- un aware,
- phoning in,
- un interested,
- in-attentive,
- in different,
- stereo typed,
- un-interested,
- dis interested.
- most rinky dink,
- diddlier,
- more rinky-dink,
- two bit,
- most rinky-dink,
- rinky-dink,
- twobit,
- scrimpiest,
- more rinky dink,
- diddliest,
- scrimpier,
- rinky dink.
- most amateur,
- more operatic,
- more vaudeville,
- un-real,
- most operatic,
- more amateur,
- showest,
- most vaudeville,
- more thespian,
- more staged,
- most thespian,
- most staged.
- more weakkneed,
- un tenable,
- most weakkneed,
- more weak kneed,
- most weak-kneed,
- most diluted,
- un-tenable,
- more weak-kneed,
- more stretched,
- most stretched,
- weak kneed,
- weakkneed,
- un-convincing,
- un convincing.
- silly,
- no-account,
- mere,
- unconsidered,
- diminished,
- lightweight,
- lower,
- inconsequential,
- small,
- low,
- expendable,
- minor league,
- Podunk,
- negligible,
- inessential,
- two-bit,
- second class,
- meaningless,
- penny ante,
- low-level,
- mickey mouse,
- nonessential,
- paltry,
- of no consequence/of little consequence,
- minor.
- most emptied,
- more emptied,
- most airheaded,
- un-reasoning,
- most lamebrained,
- more airheaded,
- un-comprehending,
- un reasoning,
- more unreasoning,
- more lamebrained,
- un comprehending,
- most unreasoning.
- more unexplicit,
- unspecified,
- un-clear,
- un-intelligible,
- un sure,
- in definite,
- un explicit,
- un-explicit,
- most generalized,
- more amphibological,
- in determinate,
- be-wildering,
- be wildering,
- un specified,
- un clearest,
- un-known,
- mis understood,
- in-definite,
- in-explicable,
- un-clearest,
- un-specified,
- un-settled,
- un-determined,
- ill defined,
- more bewildering,
- most unexplicit,
- most amphibological,
- more generalized,
- illdefined,
- most bewildering,
- more blurred,
- in explicable,
- un clear,
- un-sure,
- mis-understood,
- un settled,
- un known.
n.
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•
- complacent,
- slipshod,
- lackadaisical,
- complacency,
- careless,
- like a bull in a china shop,
- remiss,
- casual.
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•
- aspect,
- under/in the guise of,
- face,
- Styling,
- appearance,
- effect,
- externals,
- look,
- cast.
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- abortive.
- purblind,
- prejudiced,
- desultory,
- untrustworthy,
- unenlightened,
- ignorant,
- warped,
- summary,
- short-sighted,
- narrow-minded.
- glib.
Other synonyms:
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- partial,
- unfinished,
- undone,
- uncritical,
- learned.
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•
- outstanding,
- pending,
- incomplete.
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•
- rough.
How to use "Superficial" in context?
Superficial may refer to:
1) The surface of a body or object, which is visible but not necessarily Lalated.
2) A characteristic of someone or something that is not deep or fundamental.
3) A brief remark or observation that is not really important.
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