skin-deep

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[notusuallybeforenoun] (of a feeling or an attitude) not as important or strongly felt as it appears to be SYNSUPERFICIAL IDIOMS see BEAUTY

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

skin-deepEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary skin-deepEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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Is skin-deep a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, skin-deep is tagged as adjective.

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