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ADJECTIVE shallow COMPARATIVE shallower SUPERLATIVE shallowest
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shallow English

Meaning shallow meaning

What does shallow mean?
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shallow Adjective

— If water, a container, a hole, etc. is shallow, it is a short distance from the top to the bottom. The girl swam at the shallow end of the pool. — If you are shallow, you do not think much about things most people think are important. He has no ideas because he's too shallow to worry about it.

shallow

— adjective 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 — adjective not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply shallow breathing a night of shallow fretful sleep in a shallow trance — verb make shallow The silt shallowed the canal — verb become shallow the lake shallowed over time — adjective lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious shallow people his arguments seemed shallow and tedious — noun a stretch of shallow water

Synonyms shallow synonyms

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shallow English » English

superficial shoal not deep frivolous flat cursory wide low fordable flippant thin surface stupid skin-deep short sciolistic perfunctory light irresponsible ineffectual idle feckless empty dull broad basin wok wash vapid vain vacuous unsubstantial unintelligent unelaborated underslung two-dimensional tone down thoughtless squat slight wound sketchy simple silt silly shallow place sandbar round reef reduce outward

Topics shallow topics

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Conjugation shallow conjugation

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shallow · verb

Examples shallow examples

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Simple sentences

You're shallow and materialistic.
She's shallow and materialistic.
Tom is shallow and materialistic.
The pond is too shallow for swimming.
This river becomes shallow at that point.
The stout man leaped over the shallow ditch and stumbled.
He leaped over the shallow ditch.
Compared to his father, he is shallow.
After killing Tom, Mary buried him in a shallow grave.
That's a really shallow thing to say.
The water here is very shallow.
The police found Tom's body in a shallow grave behind the barn.
Tom is shallow.
The river is shallow here. We can walk across.
It's dangerous to dive in shallow water.
Tom dog paddled toward the shallow end of the pool.
She's very shallow. She only cares about clothes.

Movie subtitles

Shallow water.
Surely it's shallow.
The courses of his youth promised it not, since his addiction was to courses vain, his companies unlettered, rude and shallow, his hours filled up with banquets, riots, sports, and never noted in him any study.
And tell the Dauphin his jest will savour but of shallow wit when thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
For, my good liege, she is so idly kinged, so guided by a shallow, humorous youth, that fear attends her not.
It's only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion.
This choppy water over here, that means shallow.
It gets a little shallow in there.
Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord. Tell him his fears are shallow, without instance.
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight. have struck more terror to the soul of Richard. than can the substance of 10,000 soldiers. armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond.
And shallow.
He fires too shallow. Up to 50.
Your gods are as shallow as a reeking pond.
You're a shallow, talkative, empty-headed ne'er-do-well and to remain silent would destroy you.
It's shallow water.
Ran south through shallow water.
She was bright and gay and shallow. And lived for parties.
Now, this choppy water over here, that means shallow.
My luck's sure been running shallow lately.
They can't come any closer. The water's too shallow.
Her breathing has become shallow.
It's just that you're a cold, shallow, spoiled, conceited, unkind woman.
Sounds more like a shallow sleep. - Morning, ladies.
Too shallow - So?
Those waters are too shallow for galleys.
And tell the Dauphin his jest will savour but of shallow wit, when thousands weep more than did laugh at it.
For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd, so guided by a shallow, humorous youth, that fear attends her not.
The lagoon there's called the Fleet. and that shallow over there is Portland Bill.
BECAUSE I'M A WICKED, SHALLOW WOMAN.
YOU'RE ABOUT AS SHALLOW AS THAT WATER.
Now, when we're using pit arms, when the -- gets shallow, I want a rock to --.
It's shallow.
Keep left, there's a shallow place.
No, it's shallow, you can.
How many shallow words are responsible for these eccentric ideas?
He's a shallow man, and a scoundrel.
Breathing is shallow. Light sleep.

News and current affairs

At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.
Let us hope that it will be short and shallow.
One camp argued that the recession in the United States would be V-shaped - short and shallow.
The city's plan is to build more than 100 wind turbines within the greater Copenhagen area and in the shallow waters around it.
You pass by a small child drowning in a shallow pond, and you are the only one around.
But, unless all Europeans accept responsibility for saving the euro - and, with it, the EU - everything else is shallow rhetoric.
The greatest democratic politicians have a large capacity for shallow friendships.
The traditions of law were, therefore, very shallow in Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power.
He was content to camp on his own shallow prejudices, and the rest of the world had to be fitted into this narrow terrain.
The first three decades after 1945 were governed by the Bretton Woods consensus - a shallow multilateralism that permitted policymakers to focus on domestic social and employment needs while enabling global trade to recover and flourish.
Had it not been for the world economic crisis, or if it ends up being short and shallow, many observers, including me, remain convinced that Mexico can continue to muddle through, as it has done since 1996.
Nationalism is widespread, but its roots are shallow.
To blame everything on the heavy-handedness of the Americans is too simplistic and shallow, even if their mistakes have, indeed, been legion.
Letting one member fail would create speculative pressure on other EMU governments with weak fiscal positions or shallow domestic bond markets.
Until now, most investors have thought that they would rather risk high inflation for a couple of years than accept even a short and shallow recession.
Yet, even at shallow depths, useful temperatures for power generation are often available.
Of course, the Nehru family name still commands loyalty among India's masses, but that is a shallow political foundation in a democracy.
Blowouts were not infrequent, but most occurred on land or in shallow water, and most could be stopped relatively easily.
Attacked for being shallow, indiscreet, and flashy by the Hillary camp, he has toned down his revivalist rhetoric, and adopted a more sober, more cautious, more professional air.
NEW YORK - Now that it is clear that the United States is in recession, the debate has moved on to whether it will be short and shallow or long and deep - a question that is as important for the rest of the world as it is for the US.
Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China's top leaders, and prone to rash decision-making on important policies with wide-ranging social and economic consequences.
Most people are surprised to learn how shallow international grain markets truly are.
Yes, these countries will recover at a slower pace than elsewhere, but countries that have fallen into a deep hole must work harder than those that have fallen into a shallow one.

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