Shallow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
  • adj. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge: "This is a shallow parody of America” ( Lloyd Rose).
  • adj. Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak: shallow respirations.
  • adj. In the part of a playing area that is closer to home plate: shallow left field.
  • n. A part of a body of water of little depth; a shoal. Often used in the plural: abandoned the boat in the shallows.
  • v. To make or become shallow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
  • adj. Extending not far downward.
  • adj. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
  • adj. Lacking interest or substance.
  • adj. Not far forward, close to the net
  • n. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
  • v. To make or become less deep
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
  • adj. Not deep in tone.
  • adj. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial.
  • n. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  • n. The rudd.
  • v. To make shallow.
  • verb-intransitive. To become shallow, as water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not deep; of little depth: as, a shallow brook; a shallow place; a shallow vessel or dish.
  • Not deep intellectually; superficial: as, a shallow person; a shallow mind.
  • n. A place where the water is not deep; a shoal; a shelf; a flat; a bank.
  • To make shallow; decrease the depth of.
  • To become shallow; decrease in depth: as, the water shallows rapidly as one approaches the bar.
  • n. The rudd, a fish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. become shallow
  • v. make shallow
  • n. a stretch of shallow water
  • adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  • adj. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  • adj. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
  • Equivalent
    superficial    light    wakeful    knee-deep    ankle-deep    fordable    shoaly    neritic    shelfy    reefy   
    Antonym
    deep   
    Verb Form
    shallowed    shallowing    shallows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    water    body of water   
    Cross Reference
    ford    superficial    shallow ground    sandbank    shoal    sandbar   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shoal    simple    ignorant    superficial    flat    shelf   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gallo    ballow    balow    callow    cavallo    gallow    hallow    mallow    palo    tallow   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    narrow    rocky    empty    circular    irregular    deep    muddy    slow