'Shallow' definitions:

Definition of 'shallow'

(from WordNet)
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" [ant: deep]
adjective
Not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance" [ant: deep]
adjective
Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
noun
A stretch of shallow water [syn: shoal, shallow]
verb
Make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: shallow, shoal]
verb
Become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: shallow, shoal]

Definition of 'Shallow'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not deep in tone. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. [1913 Webster]
  • The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shallow'

From: GCIDE
  • Shallow \Shal"low\, n.
  • 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. [1913 Webster]
  • A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shallow'

From: GCIDE
  • Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t. To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Shallow'

From: GCIDE
  • Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'shallow'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'shallow'

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