Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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 (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The rudd.
- adjective Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
- adjective rare 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.
from 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 tennis 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
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Mr. Sullivan, the blogger, said an eHow page with what he characterized as "shallow" content previously appeared as the first Google search result when users searched "how to get pregnant fast."
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Another group that you need to be cognizant of, and this occurs primarily in young teenagers and young male adults, is what we call shallow-water blackout, people going underwater and seeing how long can they hold their breath.
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Firefighters performed what they call a shallow water rescue.
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He was under what they call shallow cover as a press attach.
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Well you're wrong, when the water is muddy don't fish in shallow water, always fish in deeper water up to 8-12 feet of water.
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My boxer tries to catch the fish she sees in shallow water.
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The definition of shallow is less meaningful, so in one sense of the term meaningful, Tyler Perry is less so in that context.
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Peter Deeks, of Merritt Island, both of Native Sons Outfitters, when they spotted the big gator around 9 p.m. in shallow marshland between Lake Washington and Lake Winder.
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My boxer tries to catch the fish she sees in shallow water.
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Well you're wrong, when the water is muddy don't fish in shallow water, always fish in deeper water up to 8-12 feet of water.
hernesheir commented on the word shallow
It's a fish.
rudd
January 3, 2012