shallow

adjective

  1. 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

  2. 2

    not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

    shallow breathing

    a night of shallow fretful sleep

  3. 3

    lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

    shallow people

    his arguments seemed shallow and tedious

noun

  1. 1

    a stretch of shallow water

verb

  1. 1

    become shallow

    the lake shallowed over time

  2. 2

    make shallow

    The silt shallowed the canal

Synonyms

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