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superficially Definition In English

0 in a way that seems to be real or important when this is not true or correct:
- Superficially, such a change might be considered a good thing.
- The job I've been offered is superficially appealing, but I think I might find it boring after a while.
1 in a way that is not complete and involves only the most obvious things:
- Books about professional sports are usually superficially reported and poorly written.
- The arguments were very superficially discussed.
2 in a way that only affects the surface of something:
- Anyone who bathes regularly with soap and water may be considered superficially clean.
- Maize stems superficially resemble bamboo canes.
3 in a small way; slightly:
- Half asleep, I was only superficially aware of what was going on.
4 on the surface only; in a way that is not deep or complete:
- Superficially, these books are very different.

This arrangement may resemble superficially a sunken epithelium, but careful observation at ultrastructural level reveals that these structures are completely different.
The focus of the book is less on biological issues than on algorithms (although alignment of nucleotide and amino acid sequences are only superficially covered).
In short, when examined in detail, a superficially intact ability turned out to be associated with quite atypical cognitive and brain processes.
Superficially, these definitions might seem interchangeable, but they are not.
Indeed, whenever a diary writer edits or otherwise revises entries, ' ' these superficially private writings become unmistakably public documents, intended for an external readership.
Our systems and theirs involve indexed operations for thinning and substitution, and therefore look superficially alike.
As is no doubt obvious, implementing a natural lottery rule is superficially identical to the standard practice of negligence law.
Moreover, in doing so - in escaping or exposing its own 'strategies of containment' - narrative foregrounds that which it has, superficially, suppressed.