From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, adjective [Compar. {Shallower}; superl. {Shallowest}.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. {Shelve} to slope, {Shoal} shallow.]
1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. ''Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.'' --Milton.
The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon.
3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, verb (used with an object) To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shallow \Shal"low\, verb (used without an object) To become shallow, as water.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rudd \Rudd\, noun [See {Rud}, noun] (Zo["o]l.) A fresh-water European fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus erythrophthalmus}). It is about the size and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also {redeye}, {roud}, {finscale}, and {shallow}. A blue variety is called {azurine}, or {blue roach}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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" [ant: {deep}]
2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance" [ant: {deep}]
3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
noun
1: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shoal}]
verb
1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shoal}]
2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shoal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "shallow": airy, amateur, amateurish, ankle-deep, asinine, bank, bar, birdbrained, birdwitted, catchpenny, coral reef, cursory, dabbling, depthless, dilettante, dilettantish, empty, epidermal, fatuous, featherbrained, few, fill in, fill up, flat, flighty, flimsy, fluffy, foolish, footling, ford, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, idle, immature, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, jejune, knee-deep, light, little, low, meager, miniature, negligible, no great shakes, not deep, nugacious, nugatory, on the surface, otiose, petty, picayune, picayunish, reef, sandbank, sandbar, sciolistic, shallow-headed, shallow-minded, shallow-pated, shallow-rooted, shallow-witted, shallows, shelf, shoal, shoal water, shoals, short, silly, silt up, skin-deep, slender, slight, small, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, surface, thin, tidal flats, tiny, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, unprofound, vacuous, vain, vapid, volatile, wetlands, windy
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