Word Meanings - SUPERFICIALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.

Related words: (words related to SUPERFICIALIZE)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• WHIPPLETREE
  The cornel tree. Chaucer. (more info) 1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• SLIGHTY
  Slight. Echard.
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• MISTREAT
  To treat amiss; to abuse.