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shallow   (TTS Sound)

The noun shallow has 1 sense

• shoal, shallow -- (a stretch of shallow water)

The verb shallow has 2 senses

• shallow, shoal -- (make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal")


• shallow, shoal -- (become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time")

The adj 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")


• shallow -- (not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance")


• shallow -- (lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious")