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adjectivehaving one dimension only. having no depth or scope: a novel with one-dimensional characters. Origin of one-dimensionalFirst recorded in 1880–85 Words nearby one-dimensionalon easy street, one-bagger, one-base hit, one by one, on edge, one-dimensional, one-down, one-eighty, one-eyed, one eye on, one fell swoop, in Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for one-dimensionalRomney is steadfast in constantly casting the election as a one-dimensional referendum on the incumbent president. Mitt Romney Is a Lot Like Thomas E. Dewey, the Equivocating Loser to Truman|Robert Shrum|June 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST Our friendship is one-dimensional: we are both passionately committed to Chen. Chen Guangcheng’s Missing Rescuer, He ‘Pearl’ Peirong, Released|Reggie Littlejohn|May 4, 2012|DAILY BEAST Hollywood is comfortable with one-dimensional caricatures of racism. ‘Mad Men’ Highlights Invisible Black People and Stain of Racism|Otis Moss III|March 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST Franzen is just as critical of self-consciously tricky fiction as he is of “schmaltzy, one-dimensional” fiction. Things Jonathan Franzen Says Are Bad for Society: Kakutani, Facebook|Josh Dzieza|March 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The reviewers denounced Rand the novelist for her one-dimensional characters, but she knew what she was about. A Populist Frankenstein|Lee Siegel|November 26, 2009|DAILY BEAST No, not along this line of one-dimensional, linear, simplistic form of determinism. The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin A man becoming part of our folklore becomes a fey, one-dimensional, shadow-image of reality. The Peacemaker|Alfred Coppel But in the one-dimensional time the same bit of matter occupies different portions of time. The Concept of Nature|Alfred North Whitehead That informants have a one-dimensional view of earlier periods in Shoshone history may well be expected. Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society|Robert F. Murphy In one-dimensional geometry positions and measurements in a single line only are admitted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6|Various
Words related to one-dimensionalshallow, peripheral, sketchy, warped, apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked, hasty |