shallow

Meanings

Plural: shallows

Noun

• a stretch of shallow water
• A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
• A fish, the rudd.
• A costermonger's barrow.

Verb

• make shallow
  • "The silt shallowed the canal"
• become shallow
  • "the lake shallowed over time"
• To make or become less deep.

Adjective

• 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"
• not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  • "shallow breathing"
  • "a night of shallow fretful sleep"
  • "in a shallow trance"

Adjective Satellite

• lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  • "shallow people"
  • "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

Adj

• Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
• Extending not far downward.
• Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
• Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
• Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
• Not deep in tone.
• Not far forward, close to the net.
• Not steep; close to horizontal.

Synonyms

shallow, shoal, skin-deep, superficial

Antonyms

deep

Related Words

sandbank, sandbar, shoal

Anagrams of shallow