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shallow

UK /ˈʃæləʊ/US /ˈʃæloʊ/

adjective 8
noun 4
verb 1
forms 7
phrases 1

adjective8

•
Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
•
Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
•
Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
•
Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
•
Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. — 1622
•
Not steep; close to horizontal.
- The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a very shallow climb[…]. — 1922
•
Not far forward, close to the net.
- Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory. — 2012
(no longer used) Not deep in tone.

noun4

•
A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
(slang) A shallow hotel pan.
A fish, the rudd.
•
(historical) A costermonger's barrow.
- You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow. — 1871

verb1

To make or become less deep.

forms

shallowed · shallowing · shallows · more shallow · shallower · most shallow · shallowest

Phrases with shallow

broad and shallow
Associated with the Broad Church; latitudinarian.

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