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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
  2. adj. Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge: "This is a shallow parody of America” ( Lloyd Rose).
  3. adj. Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak: shallow respirations.
  4. adj. In the part of a playing area that is closer to home plate: shallow left field.
  5. n. A part of a body of water of little depth; a shoal. Often used in the plural: abandoned the boat in the shallows.
  6. v. To make or become shallow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not deep; of little depth: as, a shallow brook; a shallow place; a shallow vessel or dish.
  2. Not deep intellectually; superficial: as, a shallow person; a shallow mind.
  3. n. A place where the water is not deep; a shoal; a shelf; a flat; a bank.
  4. To make shallow; decrease the depth of.
  5. To become shallow; decrease in depth: as, the water shallows rapidly as one approaches the bar.
  6. n. The rudd, a fish.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
  2. adj. Extending not far downward.
  3. adj. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
  4. adj. Lacking interest or substance.
  5. adj. tennis Not far forward, close to the net
  6. n. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
  7. v. To make or become less deep

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
  2. adj. rare Not deep in tone.
  3. adj. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial.
  4. n. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  5. n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The rudd.
  6. v. To make shallow.
  7. v. To become shallow, as water.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. become shallow
  2. v. make shallow
  3. n. a stretch of shallow water
  4. adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  5. adj. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  6. adj. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English schalowe ("not deep, shallow"); apparently related to Old English sceald ("shallow"). See also shoal. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English schalowe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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