shallow
//ˈʃæləʊ//
Forms
- Comparative
- shallower
- Superlative
- shallowest
- Plural
- shallows
- present (v1)
- shallow
- past (v2)
- shallowed
- past participle (v3)
- shallowed
- present participle
- shallowing
- 3rd person singular
- shallows
Definitions
1.Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- 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.
2.Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
3.Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
4.Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
1.A fish, the rudd.
2.A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
- A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […]upon shallows of gravel.
- 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.
3.A shallow hotel pan.(slang)
1.To make or become less deep.
- 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 ).
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4775
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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”).