one-dimensional
[wuhn-di-men-shuh-nl]
- having one dimension only.
- having no depth or scope: a novel with one-dimensional characters.
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Origin of one-dimensional
First recorded in 1880–85
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Examples from the Web for one-dimensional
Contemporary Examples
Romney 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 TrumanRobert Shrum
June 18, 2012
Our friendship is one-dimensional: we are both passionately committed to Chen.
Hollywood is comfortable with one-dimensional caricatures of racism.
Franzen is just as critical of self-consciously tricky fiction as he is of “schmaltzy, one-dimensional” fiction.
The reviewers denounced Rand the novelist for her one-dimensional characters, but she knew what she was about.
Historical Examples
A man becoming part of our folklore becomes a fey, one-dimensional, shadow-image of reality.
The PeacemakerAlfred Coppel
That informants have a one-dimensional view of earlier periods in Shoshone history may well be expected.
Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and SocietyRobert F. Murphy
But in the one-dimensional time the same bit of matter occupies different portions of time.
The Concept of NatureAlfred North Whitehead
In one-dimensional geometry positions and measurements in a single line only are admitted.
No, not along this line of one-dimensional, linear, simplistic form of determinism.
The Civilization of IlliteracyMihai Nadin