1. Lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a centre
   "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"
    
2. Not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
   "in a shallow trance"; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"
    
3. Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
   "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"; "shallow people";
   - fluffy [informal]
    
4. (of breathing) taking in little air
   "The patient's breathing was shallow and rapid"
    
5. (of angle/slope) gradual or gentle
   "The path followed a shallow incline up the hill"

1. A stretch of shallow water
   "The boat ran aground in the shallow";
   - shoal

1. Make shallow
   "The silt shallowed the canal";
   - shoal
    
2. Become shallow
   "the lake shallowed over time";
   - shoal

Derived forms: shallowing, shallowest, shallows, shallower, shallowed

See also: ankle-deep, deepness, depth, fordable, light, neritic, reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly, superficial, wakeful

Type of: alter, body of water, change, modify, water

Antonym: deep

Encyclopedia: Shallow, Robert