Definition of Superficial
Superficial
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.
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Superficial Quotations
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Jean Baudrillard
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot
I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot
This is a very superficial job. I sit in a chair for two hours and get hair and makeup done and talk about myself in interviews. That's a very vain thing to do. And I do get caught up in it sometimes.
Selena Gomez
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
Andrew Wyeth
Superficial Translations
superficial in Danish is lav
superficial in Dutch is oppervlakkig, ondiep
superficial in French is simpliste
superficial in Italian is superficiale
superficial in Spanish is superficial, somero
superficial in Swedish is ytlig
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