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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Adrift, alone and haunted by guilt about that incident in her past, she becomes hypnotized by Peter’s superficially rational-sounding ideas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
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
Programs that superficially appear to be pure science but that provide data crucial for planning the missions to the moon and Mars are being terminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
Having considered this matter very superficially, historians on the one hand admire these deeds of his, and on the other condemn the main cause of them.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
