SUPERFICIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superficially mean? 

• SUPERFICIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb SUPERFICIALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a superficial manner

  Familiarity information: SUPERFICIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERFICIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a superficial manner

Context example:

he was superficially interested

Pertainym:

superficial (concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)

 Context examples 

Ruth knew them for clever girls, superficially brilliant, and she could scarcely understand their praise of Martin later that night at going to bed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The anterior tibial artery begins at the lower border of the popliteus muscle and lies along the tibia at the distal part of the leg to surface superficially anterior.

(Murine Posterior Tibial Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Superficially located histiocytic lesions behave benignly but deep, benign histiocytomas may invade locally into surrounding tissue.

(Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It consists of numerous small neurons, small pyramidal cells, stellate cells, especially superficially and fusiform cells in deeper part whose axons project into the white substance of the cerebral cortex hemisphere

(Multiform Cell Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)