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Shallow

//ˈʃæl.oʊ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

    "This crater is relatively shallow."

  2. 2
    Extending not far downward.

    "The water is shallow here."

  3. 3
    Concerned mainly with superficial matters.

    "It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle."

  4. 4
    Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.

    "The acting is good, but the characters are shallow."

  5. 5
    Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.

    "shallow learning"

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  1. 6
    Not deep in tone. obsolete

    "the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring"

  2. 7
    Not far forward, close to the net.

    "Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory."

  3. 8
    Not steep; close to horizontal.

    "a shallow climb"

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center wordnet
  2. 2
    not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply wordnet
  3. 3
    lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.

    "The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow."

  2. 2
    a stretch of shallow water wordnet
  3. 3
    A fish, the rudd.
  4. 4
    A costermonger's barrow. historical

    "You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become less deep. ambitransitive

    "The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 )."

  2. 2
    become shallow wordnet
  3. 3
    make shallow wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

Etymology 2

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

Etymology 3

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

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