Meaning of SHALLOW
| Pronunciation: | | 'shalow
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- [n] a stretch of shallow water
- [adj] lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension; downward ("shallow water"; "a shallow dish"); or inward from an outer surface ("a shallow cut"); or backward ("a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to shallow left field")
- [adj] not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
- [adj] lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
- [v] become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
- [v] make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
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| | Synonyms: | | ankle-deep, fordable, knee-deep, light, reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoal, shoal, shoal, shoaly, skin-deep, superficial, surface(a), wakeful |
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| | Antonyms: | | deep | | |
| | See Also: | | alter, body of water, change, water | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
--Bacon.
3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating
deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant;
superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill
advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the
French king. --Bacon.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
--Milton.
\Shal"low\, n.
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a
shoal; a flat; a shelf.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon
shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
\Shal"low\, v. t.
To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
\Shal"low\, v. i.
To become shallow, as water.
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