Skin deep and Skin-deep

Skin-deep and skin deep are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Skin-deep" instead the phrase "Skin deep" as an adjective or an adverb.

Skin-deep adjective - Lying on or affecting only the outer layer of something.

Skin deep and skin-deep are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Skin deep" with "Skin-deep", this phrases are similar.