one-dimensional

[ wuhn-di-men-shuh-nl ]

/ ˈwʌn dɪˈmɛn ʃə nl /

having one dimension only.

having no depth or scope: a novel with one-dimensional characters.

Origin of one-dimensional

First recorded in 1880–85

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 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