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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, affecting, or being on or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  2. adj. Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; shallow.
  3. adj. Apparent rather than actual or substantial: a superficial resemblance.
  4. adj. Trivial; insignificant: made only a few superficial changes in the manuscript.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Lying in or on, or pertaining to, the superficies or surface; not penetrating below the surface, literally or figuratively; being only on the surface; not reaching to the interior or essence; shallow: as, a superficial color; a superficial resemblance.
  2. Of persons or their mental states or acts, comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or profound; not thorough.
  3. In anatomy, not deep-seated or profound; lying on the surface of some part, or near but not on the surface of the whole body; subcutaneous; cutaneous: specifically said of various tissues and structures.
  4. Synonyms External, exterior, outer.
  5. Slight, smattering, shallow.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Shallow, lacking substance.
  2. adj. At face value.
  3. adj. Of or pertaining to the surface.
  4. adj. Being near the surface.
  5. adj. rare Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
  6. n. chiefly in plural A surface detail.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep.
  2. adj. Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious or apparent; not deep or profound; shallow; -- said especially in respect to study, learning, and the like.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
  2. adj. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually
  3. adj. of little substance or significance

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French superficiel, from Latin superficiālis, from superficiēs, surface; see superficies. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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