Shallow

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  • adjective. Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
  • adjective. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge.
  • adjective. Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak.
  • adjective. In the part of a playing area that is closer to home plate.
  • noun. A part of a body of water of little depth; a shoal.
  • transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become shallow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make shallow; decrease the depth of.
  • To become shallow; decrease in depth: as, the water shallows rapidly as one approaches the bar.
  • Not deep; of little depth: as, a shallow brook; a shallow place; a shallow vessel or dish.
  • Not deep intellectually; superficial: as, a shallow person; a shallow mind.
  • noun. A place where the water is not deep; a shoal; a shelf; a flat; a bank.
  • noun. The rudd, a fish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  • noun. The rudd.
  • adjective. Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
  • adjective. Not deep in tone.
  • adjective. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial.
  • transitive verb. To make shallow.
  • intransitive verb. To become shallow, as water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
  • adjective. Extending not far downward.
  • adjective. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
  • adjective. Lacking interest or substance.
  • adjective. Not far forward, close to the net
  • noun. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
  • verb. To make or become less deep
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become shallow
  • verb. make shallow
  • noun. a stretch of shallow water
  • adjective. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  • adjective. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  • adjective. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
  • Word Usage
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    Gallo  ballow  balow  callow  cavallo  
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