Usually means: Concerned with or understanding only exterior.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word superficial:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. superficial: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. superficial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superficial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. superficial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. superficial: Vocabulary.com
  6. Superficial, superficial: Wordnik
  7. superficial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. superficial: Wiktionary
  9. superficial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. superficial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. superficial: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. superficial: Dictionary.com
  13. superficial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. superficial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Superficial (album), Superficial, The Superficial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Superficial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. superficial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. superficial: Rhymezone
  19. superficial, superficial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. superficial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. superficial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. superficial: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. superficial: Free Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superficial: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. superficial: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superficial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Superficial: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. superficial: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. superficial: Medical dictionary
  7. Superficial: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See superficially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (relational) Existing, occurring, or located on the surface.
adjective:  (anatomy, relational, often with to) Closer to the surface of the body; especially, situated or occurring on the skin or immediately beneath it.
adjective:  Appearing to be true or real only until examined more closely.
adjective:  Not thorough, deep, or complete; concerned only with the obvious or apparent.
adjective:  Lacking depth of character or understanding; lacking substance or significance.
adjective:  (rare) Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
adjective:  (British, architecture) Denoting a quantity of a material expressed in terms of area covered rather than linear dimension or volume.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A surface detail.

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