superficial
adjective
being at, on, or near the surface.
superficially
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a word derived from
superficial.
Example Sentences
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While that approach is direct and at least superficially logical, it’s not optimal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
In the early 20th century, totalitarianism was best known in countries that had superficially been modernized, but remained regressive in crucial ways.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
All this material allows the bots to generate superficially coherent answers to questions by generating prose patterns and sometimes repeating facts they dredge up from their hoards of scraped material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2025
These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique, but superficially bland, ice giants.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
In place of pencil and paper, the main working tools were a set of molecular models superficially resembling the toys of preschool children.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
