[syn: shallow, shoal]
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center;
- Example: "shallow water"
- Example: "a shallow dish"
- Example: "a shallow cut"
- Example: "a shallow closet"
- Example: "established a shallow beachhead"
- Example: "hit the ball to shallow left field"
2. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply;
- Example: "shallow breathing"
- Example: "a night of shallow fretful sleep"
- Example: "in a shallow trance"
3. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious;
- Example: "shallow people"
- Example: "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shallow \Shal"low\, n.
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a
shoal; a flat; a shelf.
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A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon
shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
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Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
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2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t.
To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i.
To become shallow, as water.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. Shallower; superl.
Shallowest.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or
shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D.
& G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve to slope, Shoal
shallow.]
1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and
rivers wide." --Milton.
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2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
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The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
--Bacon.
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3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating
deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant;
superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
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The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill
advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the
French king. --Bacon.
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Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See Rud, n.] (Zool.)
A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus
erythrophthalmus). It is about the size and shape of the
roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter
body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud,
finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called
azurine, or blue roach.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shallow
adj 1: 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"
[ant: deep]
2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow
breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow
trance" [ant: deep]
3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with
what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed
shallow and tedious"
n 1: a stretch of shallow water [syn: shoal, shallow]
v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn:
shallow, shoal]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn:
shallow, shoal]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "shallow":
airy, amateur, amateurish, ankle-deep, asinine, bank, bar,
birdbrained, birdwitted, catchpenny, coral reef, cursory, dabbling,
depthless, dilettante, dilettantish, empty, epidermal, fatuous,
featherbrained, few, fill in, fill up, flat, flighty, flimsy,
fluffy, foolish, footling, ford, fribble, fribbling, frivolous,
frothy, futile, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, idle,
immature, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant,
jejune, knee-deep, light, little, low, meager, miniature,
negligible, no great shakes, not deep, nugacious, nugatory,
on the surface, otiose, petty, picayune, picayunish, reef,
sandbank, sandbar, sciolistic, shallow-headed, shallow-minded,
shallow-pated, shallow-rooted, shallow-witted, shallows, shelf,
shoal, shoal water, shoals, short, silly, silt up, skin-deep,
slender, slight, small, smattering, sophomoric, superficial,
surface, thin, tidal flats, tiny, trifling, trite, trivial,
unimportant, unprofound, vacuous, vain, vapid, volatile, wetlands,
windy