Superficial is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SUPERFICIAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• that which is superficial
• superficial thing
ADJECTIVE:
• on the surface
• existing or occurring at or on the surface
• 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; cursory
• lacking depth of character or understanding
• denoting a quantity of a material expressed in terms of area covered rather than linear dimension or volume.
• Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage.
• Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious or apparent; not deep or profound; shallow; -- said especially in respect to study, learning, and the like; as, a superficial scholar; superficial knowledge.
• concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually
• of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
• of little substance or significance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or located near a surface; lying on, not penetrating below, or affecting only the surface b British of a unit of measur; square

Words related to SUPERFICIAL

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Words that contain SUPERFICIAL

superficials19 superficially23 superficialise21 superficiality24 superficialize30 superficialised23 superficialises22 superficialized32 superficializes31 superficialness22 superficialitie22 superficialities23

How to use SUPERFICIAL in a sentence

• Besides this, I should have derived but little satisfaction from the mere superficial impressions which would have been all I could have obtained of either town.
• He must be but a superficial judge of life who draws decided conclusions simply from appearances.
• To my thinking, one of the best superficial proofs of their success is the number of middle-class children who are sent to them even in the towns.
• There were some wonderful exhibitions of flying, but she was too preoccupied to pay more than a very superficial attention to what she saw.
• The borrowed features in the Krishna story are superficial and also late.
• What could there be in common between two such men? In point of fact, these differences were all merely superficial.
• We are justified in concluding that he observed the close superficial likeness although he does not in this case expressly allude to it.
• The superficial cells are thick-walled, and there is a central strand of narrow cells forming a water-conducting tissue.
• To superficial observers he seemed cold, but Derville saw complete honesty under this amazement.
• Something carries us along unconsciously and a natural intelligence bridges over the superficial differences between ourselves and our associates.
• But this superficial element, while securing privacy to the pure nature, also aids it to expression.
• The world gives her only a superficial protection, either through its courts or its society.
• If in his first book Burke showed how alive he was to the profound movement of the time, in the second he dealt with one of the most serious of its more superficial interests.
• More candid opponents admitted then, as all competent persons admit now, that the inconsistency was merely verbal and superficial.
• About their instruction there must be nothing shallow or superficial.
• In the selection of a husband or a wife, too, the decision is very frequently made dependent upon the most superficial and trivial motives.
• The resemblances between the religions of Gautama and of Jesus, are purely superficial.

Similar words containing FICI without suffix al and without prefix super

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