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What (who) is SHALLOW - definition
shallow
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Shallow (disambiguation); Shallow (song)
(shallower, shallowest)
1.
A shallow container, hole, or area of water measures only a short distance from the top to the bottom.
Put the milk in a shallow dish...
The water is quite shallow for some distance.
? deep
ADJ
2.
If you describe a person, piece of work, or idea as shallow, you disapprove of them because they do not show or involve any serious or careful thought.
I think he is shallow, vain and untrustworthy...
ADJ [disapproval]
3.
If your breathing is shallow, you take only a very small amount of air into your lungs at each breath.
She began to hear her own taut, shallow breathing.
? deep
ADJ
shallow
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Shallow (disambiguation); Shallow (song)
¦ adjective
1. of little depth.
2. not showing, requiring, or capable of serious thought.
¦ noun (shallows) a shallow area of water.
¦ verb become shallow.
Derivatives
shallowly adverb
shallowness noun
Origin
ME: obscurely related to shoal2.
Shallow
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Shallow (disambiguation); Shallow (song)
·vt To make shallow.
II. Shallow ·superl Not deep in tone.
III. Shallow ·vi To become shallow, as water.
IV. Shallow ·noun The Rudd.
V. Shallow ·superl Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
VI. Shallow ·noun A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
VII. Shallow ·superl Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
Examples of use of SHALLOW
1. Grieving relatives lowered coffins into shallow graves.
2. He described the tremor as a shallow interplate earthquake.
3. Bird tracks blanket the bottom of the shallow ponds.
4. Reformers usually try to make English more shallow.
5. His remains were found in a shallow grave near Karachi.