superficial

IPA: supɝfˈɪʃʌɫ

noun

  • (usually in the plural) A surface detail.

adjective

  • (relational) Existing, occurring, or located on the surface.
  • (anatomy, relational, often with to) Closer to the surface of the body; especially, situated or occurring on the skin or immediately beneath it.
  • Appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.
  • Not thorough, deep, or complete; concerned only with the obvious or apparent.
  • Lacking depth of character or understanding; lacking substance or significance.
  • (rare) Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
  • (Britain, architecture) Denoting a quantity of a material expressed in terms of area covered rather than linear dimension or volume.
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Examples of "superficial" in Sentences

  • The rumor was fake and superficial.
  • The rest is superficial and transient.
  • It's the city of dreams and superficiality.
  • Superficiality is no substitute for substance.
  • At the bottom are superficial parts of the dermis.
  • Digressive means it is of superficial relevance if any.
  • A natural outcome of such superficiality might be argument.
  • Of the posterior muscles three are in the superficial layer.
  • At the moment, it is a fairly superficial middlebrow article.
  • Mr. Parvaiz, 26, suffered what were described as superficial wounds.
  • It carries a connotation of immaturity, transience, and superficiality.
  • So why would progressives want to participate in superficial nonsense like RePugniScums do?
  • The lacerations probably looked pretty bad right after the accident, but they were what we call superficial.
  • In the video, she takes aim at what she calls superficial pop culture and the effect it is having on young girls ` images.
  • The industry of the superficial is well funded and outrageously expensive and will do a great deal in helping fund any war or social program.
  • Some men, of whom I wish to speak with great respect, are haunted, as it seems to me, with an unreasonable fear of what they call superficial knowledge.
  • Different dog and cat breeds are known for both their differences in superficial characteristics, such as size and color, as well as personality and intelligence differences.
  • He could nimbly reach down into the tumors and, if they were “movable” as he called superficial, noninvasive cancers, pull them out without disturbing the tender architecture of tissues underneath.
  • Too frequently the stories seem to settle for, at worst, an indulgence in superficial whimsy, at best, a cultivation of the bizarre in situation and event that, at least as I read them, can't bear the weight they're asked to bear when left to provide the primary source of dramatic interest.

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