Synonyms of the word

superficial

• adj. Shallow, lacking substance.
• adj. At face value.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the surface.
• adj. Being near the surface.
• adj. (rare) Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
• n. (chiefly in plural) A surface detail.

apparent

• adj. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
• adj. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
• adj. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

boundary

• n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
• n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
• n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

bounds

• n. plural of bound.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound.

careless

• adj. (archaic) Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.
• adj. Not concerned or worried (about).
• adj. Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.

dilettante

• n. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious…
• n. (sometimes offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
• adj. Pertaining to or like a dilettante.

dilettanteish

• adj. Alternative form of dilettantish.

dilettantish

• adj. amateurish.

facile

• adj. Easy, now especially in a disparaging sense; contemptibly easy.
• adj. (now rare) Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
• adj. Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
• adj. Lazy, simplistic (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
• adj. (chemistry) Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.

frivolous

• adj. Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner.
• adj. Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight.
• adj. (law) In litigation, a lawsuit filed by a party who is aware the claim is without merit and has no reasonable…

glib

• adj. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
• adj. Smooth or slippery.
• adj. Artfully persuasive in nature.
• v. (transitive) To make glib.
• n. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.
• v. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

insignificant

• adj. Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.

looking

• v. present participle of look.
• n. The act of one who looks; a glance.
• n. (obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.

ostensible

• adj. Apparent, evident; meant for open display.
• adj. Appearing as such; being such in appearance; professed, supposed (rather than demonstrably true or real).

outward

• adj. outer; located towards the outside.
• adj. visible, noticeable.
• adj. Tending to the exterior or outside.
• adj. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.
• adv. Towards the outside; away from the centre.
• adv. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.

sciolistic

• adj. Of or relating to sciolism, or a sciolist; showing only superficial knowledge.

seeming

• v. present participle of seem.
• adj. apparent.
• n. outward appearance.
• n. (obsolete) apprehension; judgement.

shallow

• adj. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
• adj. Extending not far downward.
• adj. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
• adj. Lacking interest or substance.
• adj. Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
• adj. (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
• adj. (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
• n. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
• n. A fish, the rudd.
• v. To make or become less deep.

skin-deep

• adj. (figuratively) shallow, superficial.

sounding

• n. The action of the verb to sound.
• adj. Emitting a sound.
• adj. Sonorous.
• v. present participle of sound.
• n. Test made with a probe or sonde.
• n. A measured depth of water.
• n. The act of inserting of a thin metal rod into the urethra of the penis for medical or sexual purposes.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach…
• n. The sand, shells, etc. brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.

surface

• n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
• n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
• n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
• n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
• v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
• v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
• v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
• v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
• v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

trivial

• adj. Ignorable; of little significance or value.
• adj. Commonplace, ordinary.
• adj. Concerned with or involving trivia.
• adj. (taxonomy) Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
• adj. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
• adj. (mathematics) Self-evident.
• adj. Pertaining to the trivium.
• adj. (philosophy) Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
• n. (obsolete) Any of the three liberal arts forming the trivium.

unimportant

• adj. petty; not important or noteworthy.