Shallow

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shallow \Shal"low\, n.
     1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a
        shoal; a flat; a shelf.
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              A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon


              shallows of gravel.                   --Bacon.
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              Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden.
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     2. (Zool.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [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.
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     2. Not deep in tone. [R.]
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              The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating
        deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant;
        superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
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              The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill
              advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the
              French king.                          --Bacon.
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              Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
                                                    --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shallow \Shal"low\, v. t.
     To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shallow \Shal"low\, v. i.
     To become shallow, as water.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rudd \Rudd\, n. [See {Rud}, n.] (Zool.)
     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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shallow
       adj 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"
       n : a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shoal}]
       v 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