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one-dimensional

Adjective

Meaning

of or in or along or relating to a line; involving or having a single dimension

relating to a single dimension or aspect; having no depth or scope

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one dimensional

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Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk. Bruce Dickinson

Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control ... Don't let people know the ideas you love, the games you've played, the places you've visited in your mind. Keep your treasure to yourself. Douglas Coupland

If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites. Christopher Hitchens

I've got a one-dimensional mind. Bertrand Russell

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people. Thomas Piketty

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Billie Jean King

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