Shallow
['ʃæləʊ] or ['ʃælo]
Definition
(verb.) become shallow; 'the lake shallowed over time'.
(verb.) make shallow; 'The silt shallowed the canal'.
(adj.) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; 'shallow water'; 'a shallow dish'; 'a shallow cut'; 'a shallow closet'; 'established a shallow beachhead'; 'hit the ball to shallow left field' .
(adj.) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; 'shallow breathing'; 'a night of shallow fretful sleep'; 'in a shallow trance' .
(adj.) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; 'shallow people'; 'his arguments seemed shallow and tedious' .
Typed by Jody--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
(superl.) Not deep in tone.
(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make shallow.
(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.
Inputed by Heinrich
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Shoal, not deep.[2]. Superficial, unintelligent, simple, ignorant, not profound.[3]. Flimsy, trivial, frivolous, trifling, foolish, puerile, trashy.
n. Shoal, flat, shelf, bank.
Typed by Eugenia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound
ANT:Deep, profound
Checker: Luther
Definition
n. a sandbank: a place over which the water is not deep: a shoal.—adj. not deep: not profound: not wise: trifling.—v.t. to make shallow.—v.i. to grow shallow.—adjs. Shall′ow-brained -pā′ted weak in intellect; Shall′ow-heart′ed not capable of deep feelings.—adv. Shall′owly (Shak.) simply foolishly.—n. Shall′owness.
Checker: Rowena
Examples
- You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were trees along both sides of the road and through the right line of trees I saw the river, the water clear, fast and shallow. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was like a shallow pot lying among the stone and snow of the upper world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the farther bank from me the trees rose thickly again, and shut out the view, and cast their black shadows on the sluggish, shallow water. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- As soon as Venn found his feet dragging over the pebbles of the shallower part below he secured his footing and waded towards the brink. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Two other piers, at a distance, on each side, of 460 feet, were built without much difficulty in shallower water, and between these and the masonry on each side was a distance of 230 feet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- For he is, by heaven, the most self-satisfied, and the shallowest, and the most coxcombical and utterly brainless ass! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Between the deepest and shallowest it appears to be somewhat more than one fifth. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Checker: Steve