“surfacy”的英英意思

单词 surfacy
释义 surfacy, a.|ˈsɜːfəsɪ|
Also surfacey.
[f. surface n. 1 b + -y1.]
‘On the surface’, without depth; superficial.
1887W. Armstrong in Art Jrnl. June 167/1 Titian fails to give the substance of flesh. His flesh is surfacy and without the variety of truth; it is, in fact, without texture.1957Psychol. Rev. LXIV. 139/1 When we are fixated upon the vase in the Rubin reversible figure, the background recedes, is less surfacy, and..seems to provide a less centrally adequate form of sensory input.1975Citizen (Ottawa) 3 Nov. 57/3 Neither he nor Dame Peggy wish to deliver glib, surfacy imitations.1979Rydge's (Sydney) Apr. 105/2, I would still be trying to select the one that had the fine edge, but I wouldn't be as surfacey as to select it on that one aspect.

 

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