Bleak vs Superficial - What's the difference?
bleak | superficial |
Without color; pale; pallid.
* Foxe
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
* Wordsworth
* Longfellow
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidae.
Shallow, lacking substance.
At face value.
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Of or pertaining to the surface.
Being near the surface.
(rare) Two-dimensional; drawn on a flat surface.
(chiefly in plural) A surface detail.
As adjectives the difference between bleak and superficial
is that bleak is without color; pale; pallid while superficial is shallow, lacking substance.As nouns the difference between bleak and superficial
is that bleak is a small european river fish (alburnus alburnus ), of the family cyprinidae while superficial is (chiefly in plural) a surface detail.bleak
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bleke (also bleche > English .Adjective
(er)- When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
- Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
- at daybreak, on the bleak sea beach
- A bleak and bare rock.
- They escaped across the bleak landscape.
- A bleak , crater-pocked moonscape.
- We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
- Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
- A bleak future is in store for you.
- The news is bleak .
- The survey paints a bleak picture.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) bleikja .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia bleak)Synonyms
* alburn * blayReferences
Anagrams
* *superficial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
Synonyms
* (of or pertaining to the surface) surficialAntonyms
* in-depth * thorough * (lacking substance) substantiveNoun
(en noun)- He always concentrates on the superficials and fails to see the real issue.