shallow
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Etymology: From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Inflected forms:
form: shallower
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more shallow
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shallowest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most shallow
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shallows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shallows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shallowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shallowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shallowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
pos: adj
examples: This crater is relatively shallow.
Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
The corpus is massive, being deeper anteriorly and shallowest where the ramus takes origin. The corpi of both sides are more closely spaced to each other than in the living form, and the symphysis is narrower.
The two shallower fibriscesses may represent lysis due to the spread of the infection that entered the phalanx at its presumed puncture wound, the deep fibriscess on the palmar surface.
gloss: Extending not far downward.
pos: adj
examples: The water is shallow here.
gloss: Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
pos: adj
examples: It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
gloss: Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
pos: adj
examples: The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
gloss: Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
pos: adj
examples: shallow learning
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
gloss: Not deep in tone.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring
gloss: Not far forward, close to the net.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Not steep; close to horizontal.
pos: adj
examples: a shallow climb
a shallow descent
a shallow bank angle
The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a very shallow climb[…].
If they [the Apollo astronauts] come in too steeply, they will be crushed in the Earth’s atmosphere. If they come in too shallow, they will skip out and go into Earth orbit and not be able to return.
gloss: A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
pos: noun
examples: The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […]upon shallows of gravel.
dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
He dipped his hand in the shallow:
Water ran over and under
Hair on a narrow wrist bone; […]
gloss: A fish, the rudd.
pos: noun
gloss: A costermonger's barrow.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 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.
gloss: To make or become less deep.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
Synonyms: shallow
superficial
Antonyms: deep
Related words: sandbank
sandbar
shoal
Derived words: broad and shallow
given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
nonshallow
Shallowater
Shallow Bay
shallow brooks are noisy
shallow copy
shallow-copy
shallow cove
shallow embedding
shallow end
shallow fellow
shallow-fried
shallow-fry
shallow-hearted
shallowhearted
shallowish
shallowly
shallowness
shallowpate
shallow-waisted
Shallow Water
shallow-witted
unshallow
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