Definition of Superficial

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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

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol

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

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
Jeanne Moreau

I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful.
Brigitte Bardot

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

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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