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Adjective shallow has 3 senses
- shallow - 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"
Antonyms: deep, abysmal, abyssal, unfathomable, bottomless, deep-water, in depth, profound, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded, walk-in
- shallow - not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
Antonyms: deep, heavy, sound, wakeless, profound
- shallow - lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
Antonym: profound (indirect, via superficial)
Noun shallow has 1 sense
- shoal, shallow - a stretch of shallow water
--1 is a kind of body of water, water
Verb shallow has 2 senses
- shallow, shoal - make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- shallow, shoal - become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
--2 is one way to change
Sample sentence:
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