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adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

sketchy, unelaborated

adj. giving only major points; lacking completeness; "a sketchy account"; "details of the plan remain sketchy"

trivial

adj. concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

rough, unsmooth

adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

imperfect

adj. not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"

apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "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"

looking, sounding

adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "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"

dilettante, dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic

adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

facile

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

shallow

adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

potted

adj. (British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"

skin-deep

adj. penetrating no deeper than the skin: "her beauty is only skin-deep"

catalectic

adj. (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot

half(a)

adj. partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job"

partial

adj. being or affecting only a part; not total; "a partial description of the suspect"; "partial collapse"; "a partial eclipse"; "a partial monopoly"; "partial immunity"

uncompleted

adj. not caught or not caught within bounds; "an uncompleted pass"

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