'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'
From: GCIDE
- 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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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