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Definition of Skin-deep
1. Adjective. Penetrating no deeper than the skin:. "Her beauty is only skin-deep"
Definition of Skin-deep
1. Adjective. (context: figuratively) shallow, superficial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Skin-deep
1. Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skin-deep
Literary usage of Skin-deep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Buddhism in Translations by Henry Clarke Warren (1896)
"BEAUTY IS BUT skin-deep. [THE IMPURITIES.] § 62 a. — Translated from the
Visuddhi-Magga (chap. i.). With his eye he sees forms: — He sees forms with his ..."
2. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"Large, broad at top, and tapering towards the eye; stalk long, in deep cavity;
calyx but little sunk; skin deep yellow, striped and clouded with red; ..."
3. The War of American Independence, 1775-1973 by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1888)
"But the early resort to the aid of German mercenaries showed that this popularity
was only skin-deep,—that the The popu- heart of the masses was not engaged ..."
4. Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1914)
"Philadelphia's famous calm was but skin deep over its seething mass of workers,
its energy, its toiling, its triumph. When I reflected on what was going on ..."
5. The War of American Independence, 1775-1783 by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1876)
"showed that this popularity was only skin-deep,—that the The popu- heart of the
masses was not engaged in the ..."
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