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shallow

• (a) 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
• (a) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  • shallow breathing
  • a night of shallow fretful sleep
  • in a shallow trance
• (s) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  • shallow people
  • his arguments seemed shallow and tedious

Nouns

• (n) a stretch of shallow water shoal,

Verbs

• (v) make shallow
  • The silt shallowed the canal
  shoal,
• (v) become shallow
  • the lake shallowed over time
  shoal,

Synonyms

shoal

Antonyms

deep

Words of close approximity