What are some alternative words for superficial?
Synonyms for superficial
ˌsu pərˈfɪʃ əl
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Princeton's WordNet
superficial(adj)
concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually
"superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"
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trivialAntonyms:
important, significant, deep, thoughtful, profoundsuperficial(adj)
of, affecting, or being on or near the surface
"superficial measurements"; "the superficial area of the wall"; "a superficial wound"
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trivialAntonyms:
deep, thoughtful, profound, important, significantsuperficial, trivial(adj)
of little substance or significance
"a few superficial editorial changes"; "only trivial objections"
Synonyms:
niggling, trivial, picayune, piffling, footling, petty, fiddling, lilliputian, little, piddlingAntonyms:
thoughtful, important, significant, deep, profound
Wiktionary
superficial(adjective)
Of or pertaining to the surface.
Synonyms:
surficial
English Synonyms and Antonyms
superficial
Synonyms:
accidental, casual, external, extrinsic, fortuitous, incidental, outward, subsidiary, superadded, superfluous, superimposed, supplemental, transient, unconnectedAntonyms:
congenital, essential, immanent, inborn, inbred, indispensable, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inhering, innate, inseparable, internal, intrinsic, inwrought, native, natural, subjective
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
superficial(a.)
Synonyms:
external, exterior, outer, on the surfacesuperficial(a.)
Synonyms:
shallow, slight, smattering, not deep, not thorough, not profound
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "superficial":
surface, surficial, shallow, cursory, perfunctory, above-ground, cosmetic, facile, apparent, supracrustal
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#398 | little | |
#613 | light | |
#1642 | external | |
#1653 | surface | |
#4833 | casual | |
#5893 | cosmetic | |
#6338 | apparent | |
#7516 | slight | |
#7868 | subsidiary | |
#8668 | supplemental | |
#10283 | shallow | |
#11733 | accidental | |
#12548 | transient | |
#12556 | trivial | |
#13331 | petty | |
#13621 | incidental | |
#16784 | outward | |
#19703 | superficial | |
#21090 | imperfect | |
#35699 | superfluous | |
#37914 | superimposed | |
#43443 | picayune | |
#44059 | flimsy | |
#44272 | extrinsic | |
#44547 | fiddling | |
#47735 | facile | |
#49265 | cursory | |
#52578 | unconnected | |
#53694 | showy | |
#69489 | smattering | |
#71442 | fortuitous | |
#74759 | surficial | |
#92204 | perfunctory | |
#133580 | niggling | |
#208631 | piddling | |
#248286 | lilliputian |
How to use superficial in a sentence?
It’s a very surface level fix that certainly will make that particular parent happy, but isn’t fulfilling OCR’s obligation, oCR is underfunded and understaffed and in order to get through all the complaints in some kind of timely manner, staff is being forced to give them superficial treatment.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
It's true that Love and Fragrance cannot be concealed, and yet the public display of affection (PDA) in social media seems so superficial and artificial, e.g., when husband and wife congratulate each other on FB for their wedding anniversary or parents wish happy birthday on Internet to their children who live in the same house. The dichotomy is that the magic of sensitive and innermost personal affections begins to vanish, as they get displayed explicitly and publicly in social media.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
These rains serve to accumulate water, but the superficial run-off is very high. What is best is a little, constant rain.
Translations for superficial
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- سطحيArabic
- উদাসীনBengali
- superficialCatalan, Valencian
- povrchníCzech
- oberflächlichGerman
- ρηχόςGreek
- superficialSpanish
- pinnapealneEstonian
- pinnallinenFinnish
- superficielFrench
- faoinScottish Gaelic
- सतहीHindi
- yfirborðskenndurIcelandic
- superficialeItalian
- ზედაპირულიGeorgian
- superficiālisLatin
- oppervlakkigDutch
- superficialPortuguese
- неглубокий, поверхностныйRussian
- ytligSwedish
- மேலோட்டமானTamil
- เพียงผิวเผินThai
- üstünkörü, yüzeyselTurkish
- 淺Chinese
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