one-dimensional

Examples

• All

• And so parents will think that one-dimensional games are good for their kids because that's how they learn math.

• Now there's nothing especially one-dimensional about this.

• We're we're not one-dimensional people and one sound bite is not really going to give that much depth.

• Their eros has become one-dimensional because they are no longer moved by love and death.

  Academic text (2000)

• Thus, once more this type of one-dimensional policy can be of limited rationality.

  Academic text (1992)

• For example, various editorial boards argued that NATO policy was one-dimensional and relied too heavily on nuclear weapons.

  Academic text (2005)

• In this story, the agents of colonialism do not appear as monolithic, one-dimensional characters.

  Academic text (1997)

• Empowerment should not be regarded as one-dimensional, fixed, and universal, but as diverse, dynamic, contextual, and creative.

  Academic text (2007)

• Keyframe: The main protagonist is not as one-dimensional as the ideology he flirts with.

  Blog text (18)

• The plot of the movie was so one-dimensional that it failed to engage the audience.

Synonyms

T

two-dimensional

vsone-dimensional

• Informal

3 5.5

Has no depth or interesting detail

is the same simplicity but applies across varied aspects and examples

C

characterless

vsone-dimensional

1 5.8

Having nothing special or interesting

is about simple superficiality rather than missing unique traits

U

unidimensional

vsone-dimensional

1 8.4

Having only one simple part and no depth

is broader meaning generally simple and superficial across people or ideas

D

depthless

vsone-dimensional

1 7.3

Not having much feeling or real meaning

is about lack of complexity or variety rather than physical depth

B

bidimensional

vsone-dimensional

• Literature

8.3

Simple and not interesting or deep, often about a character

is used more widely for simple or superficial things beyond characters

Antonyms

C

complex

648 5.6

Not simple because it has many connected parts

How Simple

simplistic

61 6.0

one-dimensional

• Offensive

13 4.8

superficial

94 5.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology