Dictionary Definition
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 : a stretch of shallow
water [syn: shoal]
Verb
1 make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
[syn: shoal]
2 become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
[syn: shoal]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain; apparently realted to sceald.Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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