Word Type

Adjective

Noun

Verb

Adjective

Proper Noun

The word "shallow" can be used as adjective, noun, verb, adjective and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

deep deep

Derived Terms

Shallow Bay Shallow Water Shallowater broad and shallow given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow nonshallow shallow brooks are noisy shallow copy shallow cove shallow embedding shallow end shallow fellow shallow-copy shallow-fried shallow-fry shallow-hearted shallow-waisted shallow-witted shallowhearted shallowish shallowly shallowness shallowpate unshallow

Distinct From

deep

Etymologically Related To

shoal

Context

tennis

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

alter body of water change modify short water

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

ankle-deep knee-deep skin-deep

Manner Of

change

Related Terms

sandbank sandbar shoal

Related Terms

deep depth rudd sandbank sandbar shoal substance superficial water

Similar Terms

ankle deep ankle-deep fordable fordable knee-deep light neritic neritic reefy shelfy shelfy shelvy shoaly superficial superficial wakeful wakeful

Synonym Network

shoal

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.