Synonym: cursory, shallow, surface. Antonym: deep. Similar words: official, officially, artificial, beneficial, judicial, judicial review, superfluous, deficit. Meaning: [‚suːpə(r)'fɪʃl] adj. 1. being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually 2. relating to a surface 3. of little substance or significance 4. involving a surface only.
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(121) There seems to be almost no discussion of the above topics apart from at the most superficial level.
(122) One explanation is that there are social class differences of a more superficial kind which overlay the similarity in role-identification patterns.
(123) At this superficial level, different kinds of speech community shape can be readily distinguished.
(124) I shall suggest that, although they capture some superficial similarities between the two issues, they are ultimately misleading.
(125) They vary from superficial scratches to full-thickness lacerations, but almost invariably draw blood.
(126) He tried and tried but his writing remained too stunted, too abbreviated and superficial.
(127) These are relatively inexpensive and can help to restore order to superficial chaos.
(128) But at £320 for the weekend, it is more expensive. On a superficial level, there are similarities.
(129) Such economies of attention are achieved by dealing only with the most superficial aspects of an experience.
(130) The superficial reason is Kathleen Brown, the popular state treasurer, whose hat is in the ring already.
(131) The people are friendly, but only in a superficial way.
(132) We thrive on the superficial barb, and shrink from the deeper, more complex, less titillating ambiguities of an issue.
(133) A superficial review of the clinical picture may only provide evidence for metabolic alkalosis.
(134) Chronic superficial gastritis was seen in 12 patients and atrophic gastritis in two.
(135) The cuts were always superficial and usually consisted of between 20 and 40 neat parallel scratches on her wrist and forearm.
(136) The notion of accessibility strikes me as superficial, and produces the least interesting results.
(137) Those who prefer limited, selective superficial policies exert pressure to restrict the scope of the categories.
(138) All sorts of superficial variations-from homosexual marriage to companionate partnership-may be played on the primal themes of human life.
(139) Their style was seen as outdated, anachronistic, full of superficial trickery.
(140) As a reader I think there is too much superficial cricket autobiography and biography already available.
(141) In bringing out the imbalance, therefore, it should appear in progressively lower and more superficial regions of the body.
(142) The distal papillae appear to form a continuous series with the superficial tentacle scales of the second oral tentacle pore.
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(143) A superficial reading of this passage might suggest little practical relevance for present-day dealings in employment situations.
(144) One of the dinner guests found Pennant, the travel writer, superficial.
(145) It behoves the sceptics among us to listen and argue rather than to whoop with delight at the superficial difficulties.
(146) In ignoring other dimensions of power, behaviourism was accused of producing a superficial account of the distribution of power.
(147) He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels.
(148) Yet, regrettably, the lasting impression is of a merely superficial look at grinding poverty.
(149) On a superficial level, it has given the undersea hot springs their otherworldly look.
(150) After all, who really likes gossips beyond a superficial level?
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