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To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

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Your writing can sound boring if you continually keep repeating the same words. When you create sentences, you can make them more interesting by using words that mean the same as the word you are speaking about. This allows you to add flavor to your writing.

In order to make language a lot more expressive and interesting you should try to vary the words you use as often as you can.

Synonyms for (adjective) superficial

Synonyms: superficial Definition: concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually Usage: 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

Hypernyms: seeming, apparent, ostensible Definition: appearing as such but not necessarily so Usage: 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

Hypernyms: sciolistic, dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish Definition: showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish Usage: his dilettantish efforts at painting

Hypernyms: facile Definition: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth Usage: too facile a solution for so complex a problem

Hypernyms: glib Definition: marked by lack of intellectual depth Usage: glib generalizations; a glib response to a complex question

Hypernyms: looking, sounding Definition: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms Usage: 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

Hypernyms: shallow Definition: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious Usage: shallow people; his arguments seemed shallow and tedious

Hypernyms: skin-deep Definition: penetrating no deeper than the skin: "her beauty is only skin-deep"

Synonyms: superficial, trivial Definition: of little substance or significance Usage: a few superficial editorial changes; only trivial objections

Hypernyms: insignificant, unimportant Definition: devoid of importance, meaning, or force