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Synonyms for shallow
ˈʃæl oʊshal·low

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  1. shallownoun

    Antonyms:
    deep

  2. shallowadjective

    Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

    The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.

    Antonyms:
    deep

  3. shallowadjective

    The water is shallow here

    Antonyms:
    deep

  4. shallowadjective

    It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle

    Antonyms:
    deep

  5. shallowadjective

    The acting is good, but the characters are shallow

    Antonyms:
    deep

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shallow

    Synonyms:
    shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound

    Antonyms:
    deep, profound

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shoal, shallowadjective

    a stretch of shallow water

    Synonyms:
    school, shoal

    Antonyms:
    deep-water, sound, unfathomable, unsounded, unfathomed, deep, walk-in(a), heavy, profound, abysmal, bottomless, abyssal, unplumbed, wakeless

  2. shallowadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    sound, bottomless, walk-in(a), profound, deep, deep-water, unplumbed, unsounded, unfathomable, wakeless, abysmal, heavy, unfathomed, abyssal

  3. shallowadjective

    not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

    "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"

    Antonyms:
    unfathomable, abysmal, wakeless, deep, unplumbed, heavy, abyssal, unfathomed, profound, walk-in(a), deep-water, unsounded, sound, bottomless

  4. shallowverb

    lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

    "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

    Antonyms:
    heavy, abyssal, wakeless, bottomless, walk-in(a), profound, unfathomable, unfathomed, deep, sound, unplumbed, abysmal, unsounded, deep-water

  5. shallow, shoalverb

    make shallow

    "The silt shallowed the canal"

    Synonyms:
    shoal

    Antonyms:
    profound, unfathomable, unplumbed, deep, heavy, deep-water, walk-in(a), abyssal, unfathomed, bottomless, unsounded, wakeless, sound, abysmal

  6. shallow, shoalverb

    become shallow

    "the lake shallowed over time"

    Synonyms:
    shoal

    Antonyms:
    unsounded, walk-in(a), deep-water, profound, abysmal, deep, heavy, wakeless, unplumbed, unfathomable, unfathomed, abyssal, bottomless, sound

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shallowadjective

    Synonyms:
    shoal, not deep

  2. shallowadjective

    Synonyms:
    superficial, unintelligent, simple, ignorant, not profound

  3. shallowadjective

    Synonyms:
    flimsy, trivial, frivolous, trifling, foolish, puerile, trashy

  4. shallownoun

    Synonyms:
    shoal, flat, shelf, bank

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shallowadjective

    Synonyms:
    shoal, superficial, frivolous, senseless

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shallow":

    superficial, shallow-water, surface, cursory, surficial, thin

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#165school
#933simple
#1653surface
#4246blind
#4349thin
#4775stupid
#7516slight
#10283shallow
#13293dull
#19703superficial
#38606idiotic
#42762shoal
#44059flimsy
#49265cursory
#69037trifling
#74759surficial
#98357imbecile
#104497unintelligent
#143096stolid

How to use shallow in a sentence?

  1. Omar Khayyam:

    Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

  2. Khayri R.R. Woulfe:

    The rEaL wOrLd is a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy should only be.

  3. Neil Roberts:

    Unless it is there would be no prospect of premiums rising, the shallow waters and numerous reefs in the Spratly island region means that commercial shipping is unlikely to be sailing within the territorial waters of any of the islands.

  4. Toshitsugu Fujii:

    If hot water or magma becomes involved, it could explode at a deeper level, and there would probably be very little warning, things are now taking place at a shallow level and probably it won't go that far. But you can't say when that might change.

  5. Facebook Wednesday:

    The storm generates a wave that moves towards the shore, and is amplified by a shallow continental shelf and inlet, bay, or other coastal feature.


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