Definition of shallow in English:

shallow

adjective ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ

1Of little depth.
serve the noodles in a shallow bowl
being fairly shallow, the water was warm
Example sentencesExamples
- These greyish, shallow erosions in the surface of the tongue and cheeks are inflamed and painful, especially when you eat hot, spicy food.
- There have even been a few documented cases of dolphins supporting drowning swimmers to shallow water.
- The casserole is fairly shallow with a large surface area allowing maximum evaporation.
- Cool slightly and turn out onto a shallow sided dish.
- That night he made his way out of town and bedded down on the edge of a shallow gully.
- Long, shallow cuts lined her cheeks and forehead, and at one or two places, there were deep gouges.
- The narrow, deep lakes, so named because they look like the fingers of a hand, were carved by Ice Age glaciers, which deposited shallow topsoil on sloping shale beds above the lakes.
- Do you know how shallow the water is here?
- Plan on shelf space tall enough for large cereal boxes and drawers shallow enough to allow you to easily find small bags and boxes.
- Kate quickly pulled out a shallow chest from beneath her bed and dumped the contents onto the floor.
- Each pair of gloves is mounted in a shallow pine box lined with beaded and embroidered wedding fabric and fitted with a lid that has an oval cutout.
- I grow this prehistoric plant in a shallow bowl of water.
- They have created roughly parallel blocks flanked by shallow canals that are actually slightly above harbour level.
- Meantime, the Russian Navy is trying to pull the sub to shallow waters.
- For the custard, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a shallow baking pan with plastic wrap.
- Roll the pastry into a large rectangle and line a shallow baking tray.
- He was speeding south over flat plains, shallow rivers, lines of trees and teeny signs of civilization.
- Evenly broadcast the seeds over an area of the bed or sprinkle them in a shallow furrow.
- They were covered over slightly, like a shallow puddle that manages to reflect the sky while still being able to see to the bottom.
- The five nodded their understanding before giving a shallow bow.
1. 1.1 Situated at no great depth.
  the shallow bed of the North Sea
  Example sentencesExamples
  Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots.
  The shallow depths where fertilizer is placed are dry under drought situations, which limits nutrient uptake.
2. 1.2 Varying only slightly from a specified or understood line or direction, especially the horizontal.
  a shallow roof
  Example sentencesExamples
  The metal balcony is propped from the rubble wall, and is an addition to traditional forms, as is the shallow pyramid of the roof.
  The den was situated at the top of a shallow hill.
  Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
  As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched roof.
  Arranged in a radial pattern, the stone arches are crowned by a shallow domed roof clad in panels of green pre-patinated copper.
  If the spaceship goes in at too shallow a plane, it will bounce off and just fly off into outer space.
  A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light.
  Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile.
  The second was the notion that the project was considered an extension of the city floor, a ramped surface of shallow slopes.
  The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
  For a shallow pitch roof, however, the three tabs is a reasonable choice.
3. 1.3 (of breathing) taking in little air.
  Example sentencesExamples
  She'd looked terribly pale and her breathing was very shallow.
  She heard her tent mates' shallow breathing in their repose.
  His breathing was shallow and his face was flushed.
  She pushed forward, rolling like a treadmill, trying to make her breaths shallow to preserve her air supply.
  Dave sank down and sat on her front steps, breaths shallow, as though he was trying not to cry.
  I was pressed up against him and my breathing was shallow.
  His eyes were closed and his breathing was shallow.
  Her breathing is shallow as she tries to keep from crying.
  Soon, she could hear the shallow breathing of people.
  Jasmin's breathing was shallow and her face flushed.
  Jewel's breathing was shallow as she held back tears.
  His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were tightly closed.
  He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky.
  His breathing was shallow, even, and mathematically perfect, each breath as large as the last, drawn out for the same amount of time.
  His breathing quickened, his breaths shallow and shaky, as if each one might be his last.
  The next minute his partner's heart was racing, his breathing was shallow, and he wouldn't respond to anything Jim said, or shouted.
  His shallow breathing seemed to echo throughout the room.
  He paused abruptly and David opened his eyes slowly; lowering his arms down, he listened to the man's shallow breathing as he muttered something barely audible.
  There was no reply save for the whelpling's shallow breathing.
2Not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought.
a shallow analysis of contemporary society
Example sentencesExamples
- Your friends think I'm just that shallow, because they don't see it and I let them.
- She likes to pretend she's that shallow, but she really isn't.
- I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is.
- It's a little shallow that way, but yet one of our guiltiest pleasures.
- As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear.
- Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious.
- Was he the only one who could tell how shallow she was?
- He also happened to be rather handsome, but I wasn't that shallow.
- This is one reason I described his analysis as shallow.
- She was supposed to be the one who wasn't shallow and who wasn't concerned with ‘status’ and such.
- People may disagree on how deep / shallow it really is, but the scintillating buzz is pretty undeniable.
- The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview.
- I got to know her pretty well and realized that she wasn't really shallow.
- However theologically shallow it may be, however, there was a definite thought and reasoning behind it.
- They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was.
- People are vain and shallow and disregard the love of others to pursue their own whims.
- Tara resented the implication that she would be that shallow.
- I was going to go home and fix my face, hide it with makeup and hope that Brendan wasn't shallow enough to break up with me because I was temporarily ugly.
- Fifth, the book's discussion of the Asian crisis seems shallow compared to its analysis of Japanese capitalism.
- But then again, did he truly believe that all women on earth were that shallow?
Synonyms
superficial, facile, glib, simplistic, oversimplified, schematic, slight, flimsy, insubstantial, lightweight, empty, trivial, trifling
surface, skin-deep
frivolous, foolish, silly, unintelligent, unthinking, unscholarly, ignorant

noun ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ

shallows

An area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep.
Example sentencesExamples
- She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows.
- As summer had progressed, the weather had become sunnier and the water in the shallows of the bay had warmed up for swimming.
- Taking Danny's hand the nurse led him into the shallows of the water.
- Those on the front line of the hauling ropes stood knee deep in the shallows.
- The world of Holodrum is a land filled with season sensitive elements such as spring blooming flowers, snow covered caves as well as summer sapped shallows of water and pits clogged with autumn falling leaves.
- The components of Friedrich's seascapes are here in a fresh guise: figures gazing at a moonlit sea from rocky shallows at its edge.
- In and out of the shingle shallows the fish tried to find escape.
- We swam to the shore and in every shallow we stopped.
- When she was done crying, she left with the baby to go and let Andrea swim in the shallows of the pond.
- She lay with her chin on her forearms, deliciously amused at the sight of Wolf plunging through the shallows, growling like an amphibious tiger.
- He waded into the shallows and collapsed in knee deep water.
- To see for yourself, inspect the shallows at a pond or pool where the water is clear but also sports some vegetation.
- The rest of the class graduated to the deep end, while I hung around the shallows or clung to the side of the pool.
- Caelyn walked around in the cool shallows of the water with Justin at her side.
- The trout here also seem to prefer the deep pools during the day and venture out into the shallows only when the sun is off the water.
- Down by the water, kids are playing tag on a long, sandy beach and splashing in the brisk, gin-clear shallows of Redfish Lake.
- There was a rank smell, not the smell of dead flesh but something older and colder, like something prised out of a shell in the shallows of a tide pool.
- He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river.
- The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half.
- These elusive creatures live in sea-grass meadows, mangrove forests, and other secret shallows in the ocean.

verb ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ

[no object]

(of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place.
the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed
Example sentencesExamples
- The airplane's nose dropped through the horizon and speed started increasing to a bit more than 150 knots, then the nose started climbing and the bank angle shallowed out.
- Since then, the channel shallowed and the docks silted in.
- Golden sunlight slanted across dark blue water, ruffled here and there with white lace or streaked brown with mud where it shallowed, but the central channel was wide and deep.
- Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline.
- Their pessimism is based on the condition of Jakarta's rivers, which have been shallowed and now mostly function as dumps for people living along the riverbanks.
- A much larger area at the north end of the lake is approximately 24 m deep, shallowing to the south.

Derivatives

shallowly

adverb ˈʃaləʊliˈʃæloʊli

We might well have been guilty of thinking too shallowly, of gulping our facts and developing a taste for the bitter; but happy-go-lucky, laissez-faire and carefree is not how I remember it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Planting too deeply will cause collar rot; planting too shallowly will expose the roots.
- We will win our small victories, but then forget the sacrifices made to achieve them as we bathe our wounds in overly generous civil liberties and a materialistic capitalist balm that only shallowly soothes us.
- Next, move the divisions to the prepared transplanting site and set the divisions shallowly, with buds no more than 1 to 2 inches below the soil surface.
- The boy was shaking slightly, and gasping shallowly for air.

Origin

Late Middle English: obscurely related to shoal².

school from Old English:
The school that children go to derives from Greek skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, place for lectures’, the source also of scholar (Old English). Many ancient Greeks clearly spent their leisure time in intellectual pursuits rather than physical recreation. This is not the same school that large groups of fish or sea mammals congregate in. Here the word comes from early German and Dutch schōle, ‘a troop, multitude’, and comes from the same root as shoal (Old English) and is related to shallow (Late Middle English).

Rhymes

aloe, callow, fallow, hallow, mallow, marshmallow, sallow, tallow

Definition of shallow in US English:

shallow

adjectiveˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ

1Of little depth.
serve the noodles in a shallow bowl
being fairly shallow, the water was warm
Example sentencesExamples
- For the custard, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a shallow baking pan with plastic wrap.
- Do you know how shallow the water is here?
- They have created roughly parallel blocks flanked by shallow canals that are actually slightly above harbour level.
- The narrow, deep lakes, so named because they look like the fingers of a hand, were carved by Ice Age glaciers, which deposited shallow topsoil on sloping shale beds above the lakes.
- Long, shallow cuts lined her cheeks and forehead, and at one or two places, there were deep gouges.
- Roll the pastry into a large rectangle and line a shallow baking tray.
- They were covered over slightly, like a shallow puddle that manages to reflect the sky while still being able to see to the bottom.
- That night he made his way out of town and bedded down on the edge of a shallow gully.
- The casserole is fairly shallow with a large surface area allowing maximum evaporation.
- The five nodded their understanding before giving a shallow bow.
- Kate quickly pulled out a shallow chest from beneath her bed and dumped the contents onto the floor.
- Meantime, the Russian Navy is trying to pull the sub to shallow waters.
- He was speeding south over flat plains, shallow rivers, lines of trees and teeny signs of civilization.
- Cool slightly and turn out onto a shallow sided dish.
- I grow this prehistoric plant in a shallow bowl of water.
- Plan on shelf space tall enough for large cereal boxes and drawers shallow enough to allow you to easily find small bags and boxes.
- Each pair of gloves is mounted in a shallow pine box lined with beaded and embroidered wedding fabric and fitted with a lid that has an oval cutout.
- There have even been a few documented cases of dolphins supporting drowning swimmers to shallow water.
- Evenly broadcast the seeds over an area of the bed or sprinkle them in a shallow furrow.
- These greyish, shallow erosions in the surface of the tongue and cheeks are inflamed and painful, especially when you eat hot, spicy food.
1. 1.1 Situated at no great depth.
  the shallow bed of the North Sea
  Example sentencesExamples
  Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots.
  The shallow depths where fertilizer is placed are dry under drought situations, which limits nutrient uptake.
2. 1.2 Varying only slightly from a specified or understood line or direction, especially the horizontal.
  a shallow roof
  Example sentencesExamples
  The second was the notion that the project was considered an extension of the city floor, a ramped surface of shallow slopes.
  As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched roof.
  The den was situated at the top of a shallow hill.
  If the spaceship goes in at too shallow a plane, it will bounce off and just fly off into outer space.
  Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode.
  The metal balcony is propped from the rubble wall, and is an addition to traditional forms, as is the shallow pyramid of the roof.
  Arranged in a radial pattern, the stone arches are crowned by a shallow domed roof clad in panels of green pre-patinated copper.
  For a shallow pitch roof, however, the three tabs is a reasonable choice.
  A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light.
  The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
  Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile.
3. 1.3 Not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought.
  a shallow analysis of contemporary society
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is one reason I described his analysis as shallow.
  She was supposed to be the one who wasn't shallow and who wasn't concerned with ‘status’ and such.
  But then again, did he truly believe that all women on earth were that shallow?
  As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear.
  I was going to go home and fix my face, hide it with makeup and hope that Brendan wasn't shallow enough to break up with me because I was temporarily ugly.
  He also happened to be rather handsome, but I wasn't that shallow.
  However theologically shallow it may be, however, there was a definite thought and reasoning behind it.
  Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious.
  Was he the only one who could tell how shallow she was?
  They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was.
  Tara resented the implication that she would be that shallow.
  It's a little shallow that way, but yet one of our guiltiest pleasures.
  Fifth, the book's discussion of the Asian crisis seems shallow compared to its analysis of Japanese capitalism.
  She likes to pretend she's that shallow, but she really isn't.
  People may disagree on how deep / shallow it really is, but the scintillating buzz is pretty undeniable.
  I got to know her pretty well and realized that she wasn't really shallow.
  Your friends think I'm just that shallow, because they don't see it and I let them.
  People are vain and shallow and disregard the love of others to pursue their own whims.
  I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is.
  The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview.
  Synonyms
  superficial, facile, glib, simplistic, oversimplified, schematic, slight, flimsy, insubstantial, lightweight, empty, trivial, trifling
4. 1.4 (of breathing) taking in little air.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He paused abruptly and David opened his eyes slowly; lowering his arms down, he listened to the man's shallow breathing as he muttered something barely audible.
  His breathing was shallow, even, and mathematically perfect, each breath as large as the last, drawn out for the same amount of time.
  She pushed forward, rolling like a treadmill, trying to make her breaths shallow to preserve her air supply.
  His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were tightly closed.
  I was pressed up against him and my breathing was shallow.
  His breathing was shallow and his face was flushed.
  The next minute his partner's heart was racing, his breathing was shallow, and he wouldn't respond to anything Jim said, or shouted.
  He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky.
  His breathing quickened, his breaths shallow and shaky, as if each one might be his last.
  His shallow breathing seemed to echo throughout the room.
  Her breathing is shallow as she tries to keep from crying.
  Dave sank down and sat on her front steps, breaths shallow, as though he was trying not to cry.
  His eyes were closed and his breathing was shallow.
  She heard her tent mates' shallow breathing in their repose.
  There was no reply save for the whelpling's shallow breathing.
  Jewel's breathing was shallow as she held back tears.
  She'd looked terribly pale and her breathing was very shallow.
  Soon, she could hear the shallow breathing of people.
  Jasmin's breathing was shallow and her face flushed.

nounˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ

shallows

An area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep.
Example sentencesExamples
- She lay with her chin on her forearms, deliciously amused at the sight of Wolf plunging through the shallows, growling like an amphibious tiger.
- We swam to the shore and in every shallow we stopped.
- To see for yourself, inspect the shallows at a pond or pool where the water is clear but also sports some vegetation.
- He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river.
- Those on the front line of the hauling ropes stood knee deep in the shallows.
- Down by the water, kids are playing tag on a long, sandy beach and splashing in the brisk, gin-clear shallows of Redfish Lake.
- The components of Friedrich's seascapes are here in a fresh guise: figures gazing at a moonlit sea from rocky shallows at its edge.
- In and out of the shingle shallows the fish tried to find escape.
- Caelyn walked around in the cool shallows of the water with Justin at her side.
- The rest of the class graduated to the deep end, while I hung around the shallows or clung to the side of the pool.
- These elusive creatures live in sea-grass meadows, mangrove forests, and other secret shallows in the ocean.
- As summer had progressed, the weather had become sunnier and the water in the shallows of the bay had warmed up for swimming.
- He waded into the shallows and collapsed in knee deep water.
- The world of Holodrum is a land filled with season sensitive elements such as spring blooming flowers, snow covered caves as well as summer sapped shallows of water and pits clogged with autumn falling leaves.
- There was a rank smell, not the smell of dead flesh but something older and colder, like something prised out of a shell in the shallows of a tide pool.
- She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows.
- The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half.
- Taking Danny's hand the nurse led him into the shallows of the water.
- When she was done crying, she left with the baby to go and let Andrea swim in the shallows of the pond.
- The trout here also seem to prefer the deep pools during the day and venture out into the shallows only when the sun is off the water.

verbˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ

[no object]

(of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place.
the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed
Example sentencesExamples
- Golden sunlight slanted across dark blue water, ruffled here and there with white lace or streaked brown with mud where it shallowed, but the central channel was wide and deep.
- A much larger area at the north end of the lake is approximately 24 m deep, shallowing to the south.
- Their pessimism is based on the condition of Jakarta's rivers, which have been shallowed and now mostly function as dumps for people living along the riverbanks.
- Since then, the channel shallowed and the docks silted in.
- Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline.
- The airplane's nose dropped through the horizon and speed started increasing to a bit more than 150 knots, then the nose started climbing and the bank angle shallowed out.

Origin

Late Middle English: obscurely related to shoal.

单词	shallow
释义	Definition of shallow in English: shallow adjective ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ 1Of little depth. serve the noodles in a shallow bowl being fairly shallow, the water was warm Example sentencesExamples These greyish, shallow erosions in the surface of the tongue and cheeks are inflamed and painful, especially when you eat hot, spicy food. There have even been a few documented cases of dolphins supporting drowning swimmers to shallow water. The casserole is fairly shallow with a large surface area allowing maximum evaporation. Cool slightly and turn out onto a shallow sided dish. That night he made his way out of town and bedded down on the edge of a shallow gully. Long, shallow cuts lined her cheeks and forehead, and at one or two places, there were deep gouges. The narrow, deep lakes, so named because they look like the fingers of a hand, were carved by Ice Age glaciers, which deposited shallow topsoil on sloping shale beds above the lakes. Do you know how shallow the water is here? Plan on shelf space tall enough for large cereal boxes and drawers shallow enough to allow you to easily find small bags and boxes. Kate quickly pulled out a shallow chest from beneath her bed and dumped the contents onto the floor. Each pair of gloves is mounted in a shallow pine box lined with beaded and embroidered wedding fabric and fitted with a lid that has an oval cutout. I grow this prehistoric plant in a shallow bowl of water. They have created roughly parallel blocks flanked by shallow canals that are actually slightly above harbour level. Meantime, the Russian Navy is trying to pull the sub to shallow waters. For the custard, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a shallow baking pan with plastic wrap. Roll the pastry into a large rectangle and line a shallow baking tray. He was speeding south over flat plains, shallow rivers, lines of trees and teeny signs of civilization. Evenly broadcast the seeds over an area of the bed or sprinkle them in a shallow furrow. They were covered over slightly, like a shallow puddle that manages to reflect the sky while still being able to see to the bottom. The five nodded their understanding before giving a shallow bow. 1.1 Situated at no great depth. the shallow bed of the North Sea Example sentencesExamples Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots. The shallow depths where fertilizer is placed are dry under drought situations, which limits nutrient uptake. 1.2 Varying only slightly from a specified or understood line or direction, especially the horizontal. a shallow roof Example sentencesExamples The metal balcony is propped from the rubble wall, and is an addition to traditional forms, as is the shallow pyramid of the roof. The den was situated at the top of a shallow hill. Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode. As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched roof. Arranged in a radial pattern, the stone arches are crowned by a shallow domed roof clad in panels of green pre-patinated copper. If the spaceship goes in at too shallow a plane, it will bounce off and just fly off into outer space. A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light. Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile. The second was the notion that the project was considered an extension of the city floor, a ramped surface of shallow slopes. The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace. For a shallow pitch roof, however, the three tabs is a reasonable choice. 1.3 (of breathing) taking in little air. Example sentencesExamples She'd looked terribly pale and her breathing was very shallow. She heard her tent mates' shallow breathing in their repose. His breathing was shallow and his face was flushed. She pushed forward, rolling like a treadmill, trying to make her breaths shallow to preserve her air supply. Dave sank down and sat on her front steps, breaths shallow, as though he was trying not to cry. I was pressed up against him and my breathing was shallow. His eyes were closed and his breathing was shallow. Her breathing is shallow as she tries to keep from crying. Soon, she could hear the shallow breathing of people. Jasmin's breathing was shallow and her face flushed. Jewel's breathing was shallow as she held back tears. His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were tightly closed. He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky. His breathing was shallow, even, and mathematically perfect, each breath as large as the last, drawn out for the same amount of time. His breathing quickened, his breaths shallow and shaky, as if each one might be his last. The next minute his partner's heart was racing, his breathing was shallow, and he wouldn't respond to anything Jim said, or shouted. His shallow breathing seemed to echo throughout the room. He paused abruptly and David opened his eyes slowly; lowering his arms down, he listened to the man's shallow breathing as he muttered something barely audible. There was no reply save for the whelpling's shallow breathing. 2Not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought. a shallow analysis of contemporary society Example sentencesExamples Your friends think I'm just that shallow, because they don't see it and I let them. She likes to pretend she's that shallow, but she really isn't. I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is. It's a little shallow that way, but yet one of our guiltiest pleasures. As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear. Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious. Was he the only one who could tell how shallow she was? He also happened to be rather handsome, but I wasn't that shallow. This is one reason I described his analysis as shallow. She was supposed to be the one who wasn't shallow and who wasn't concerned with ‘status’ and such. People may disagree on how deep / shallow it really is, but the scintillating buzz is pretty undeniable. The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview. I got to know her pretty well and realized that she wasn't really shallow. However theologically shallow it may be, however, there was a definite thought and reasoning behind it. They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was. People are vain and shallow and disregard the love of others to pursue their own whims. Tara resented the implication that she would be that shallow. I was going to go home and fix my face, hide it with makeup and hope that Brendan wasn't shallow enough to break up with me because I was temporarily ugly. Fifth, the book's discussion of the Asian crisis seems shallow compared to its analysis of Japanese capitalism. But then again, did he truly believe that all women on earth were that shallow? Synonyms superficial, facile, glib, simplistic, oversimplified, schematic, slight, flimsy, insubstantial, lightweight, empty, trivial, trifling surface, skin-deep frivolous, foolish, silly, unintelligent, unthinking, unscholarly, ignorant noun ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ shallows An area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep. Example sentencesExamples She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows. As summer had progressed, the weather had become sunnier and the water in the shallows of the bay had warmed up for swimming. Taking Danny's hand the nurse led him into the shallows of the water. Those on the front line of the hauling ropes stood knee deep in the shallows. The world of Holodrum is a land filled with season sensitive elements such as spring blooming flowers, snow covered caves as well as summer sapped shallows of water and pits clogged with autumn falling leaves. The components of Friedrich's seascapes are here in a fresh guise: figures gazing at a moonlit sea from rocky shallows at its edge. In and out of the shingle shallows the fish tried to find escape. We swam to the shore and in every shallow we stopped. When she was done crying, she left with the baby to go and let Andrea swim in the shallows of the pond. She lay with her chin on her forearms, deliciously amused at the sight of Wolf plunging through the shallows, growling like an amphibious tiger. He waded into the shallows and collapsed in knee deep water. To see for yourself, inspect the shallows at a pond or pool where the water is clear but also sports some vegetation. The rest of the class graduated to the deep end, while I hung around the shallows or clung to the side of the pool. Caelyn walked around in the cool shallows of the water with Justin at her side. The trout here also seem to prefer the deep pools during the day and venture out into the shallows only when the sun is off the water. Down by the water, kids are playing tag on a long, sandy beach and splashing in the brisk, gin-clear shallows of Redfish Lake. There was a rank smell, not the smell of dead flesh but something older and colder, like something prised out of a shell in the shallows of a tide pool. He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river. The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half. These elusive creatures live in sea-grass meadows, mangrove forests, and other secret shallows in the ocean. verb ˈʃaləʊˈʃæloʊ [no object] (of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place. the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed Example sentencesExamples The airplane's nose dropped through the horizon and speed started increasing to a bit more than 150 knots, then the nose started climbing and the bank angle shallowed out. Since then, the channel shallowed and the docks silted in. Golden sunlight slanted across dark blue water, ruffled here and there with white lace or streaked brown with mud where it shallowed, but the central channel was wide and deep. Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline. Their pessimism is based on the condition of Jakarta's rivers, which have been shallowed and now mostly function as dumps for people living along the riverbanks. A much larger area at the north end of the lake is approximately 24 m deep, shallowing to the south. Derivatives shallowly adverb ˈʃaləʊliˈʃæloʊli We might well have been guilty of thinking too shallowly, of gulping our facts and developing a taste for the bitter; but happy-go-lucky, laissez-faire and carefree is not how I remember it. Example sentencesExamples Planting too deeply will cause collar rot; planting too shallowly will expose the roots. We will win our small victories, but then forget the sacrifices made to achieve them as we bathe our wounds in overly generous civil liberties and a materialistic capitalist balm that only shallowly soothes us. Next, move the divisions to the prepared transplanting site and set the divisions shallowly, with buds no more than 1 to 2 inches below the soil surface. The boy was shaking slightly, and gasping shallowly for air. Origin Late Middle English: obscurely related to shoal². school from Old English: The school that children go to derives from Greek skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, place for lectures’, the source also of scholar (Old English). Many ancient Greeks clearly spent their leisure time in intellectual pursuits rather than physical recreation. This is not the same school that large groups of fish or sea mammals congregate in. Here the word comes from early German and Dutch schōle, ‘a troop, multitude’, and comes from the same root as shoal (Old English) and is related to shallow (Late Middle English). Rhymes aloe, callow, fallow, hallow, mallow, marshmallow, sallow, tallow Definition of shallow in US English: shallow adjectiveˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ 1Of little depth. serve the noodles in a shallow bowl being fairly shallow, the water was warm Example sentencesExamples For the custard, preheat the oven to 300 degrees and line a shallow baking pan with plastic wrap. Do you know how shallow the water is here? They have created roughly parallel blocks flanked by shallow canals that are actually slightly above harbour level. The narrow, deep lakes, so named because they look like the fingers of a hand, were carved by Ice Age glaciers, which deposited shallow topsoil on sloping shale beds above the lakes. Long, shallow cuts lined her cheeks and forehead, and at one or two places, there were deep gouges. Roll the pastry into a large rectangle and line a shallow baking tray. They were covered over slightly, like a shallow puddle that manages to reflect the sky while still being able to see to the bottom. That night he made his way out of town and bedded down on the edge of a shallow gully. The casserole is fairly shallow with a large surface area allowing maximum evaporation. The five nodded their understanding before giving a shallow bow. Kate quickly pulled out a shallow chest from beneath her bed and dumped the contents onto the floor. Meantime, the Russian Navy is trying to pull the sub to shallow waters. He was speeding south over flat plains, shallow rivers, lines of trees and teeny signs of civilization. Cool slightly and turn out onto a shallow sided dish. I grow this prehistoric plant in a shallow bowl of water. Plan on shelf space tall enough for large cereal boxes and drawers shallow enough to allow you to easily find small bags and boxes. Each pair of gloves is mounted in a shallow pine box lined with beaded and embroidered wedding fabric and fitted with a lid that has an oval cutout. There have even been a few documented cases of dolphins supporting drowning swimmers to shallow water. Evenly broadcast the seeds over an area of the bed or sprinkle them in a shallow furrow. These greyish, shallow erosions in the surface of the tongue and cheeks are inflamed and painful, especially when you eat hot, spicy food. 1.1 Situated at no great depth. the shallow bed of the North Sea Example sentencesExamples Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots. The shallow depths where fertilizer is placed are dry under drought situations, which limits nutrient uptake. 1.2 Varying only slightly from a specified or understood line or direction, especially the horizontal. a shallow roof Example sentencesExamples The second was the notion that the project was considered an extension of the city floor, a ramped surface of shallow slopes. As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched roof. The den was situated at the top of a shallow hill. If the spaceship goes in at too shallow a plane, it will bounce off and just fly off into outer space. Architecturally they incorporate the low roofs, polygonal towers and shallow, semicircular domes of the Byzantine mode. The metal balcony is propped from the rubble wall, and is an addition to traditional forms, as is the shallow pyramid of the roof. Arranged in a radial pattern, the stone arches are crowned by a shallow domed roof clad in panels of green pre-patinated copper. For a shallow pitch roof, however, the three tabs is a reasonable choice. A shallow gabled roof covered with translucent fiberglass shelters the area from rain and drizzle without blocking the light. The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace. Her roof has the same shallow hip but is turned up like a basin with a butterfly profile. 1.3 Not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought. a shallow analysis of contemporary society Example sentencesExamples This is one reason I described his analysis as shallow. She was supposed to be the one who wasn't shallow and who wasn't concerned with ‘status’ and such. But then again, did he truly believe that all women on earth were that shallow? As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear. I was going to go home and fix my face, hide it with makeup and hope that Brendan wasn't shallow enough to break up with me because I was temporarily ugly. He also happened to be rather handsome, but I wasn't that shallow. However theologically shallow it may be, however, there was a definite thought and reasoning behind it. Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious. Was he the only one who could tell how shallow she was? They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was. Tara resented the implication that she would be that shallow. It's a little shallow that way, but yet one of our guiltiest pleasures. Fifth, the book's discussion of the Asian crisis seems shallow compared to its analysis of Japanese capitalism. She likes to pretend she's that shallow, but she really isn't. People may disagree on how deep / shallow it really is, but the scintillating buzz is pretty undeniable. I got to know her pretty well and realized that she wasn't really shallow. Your friends think I'm just that shallow, because they don't see it and I let them. People are vain and shallow and disregard the love of others to pursue their own whims. I know my sister isn't gullible or dumb, so this fact only served to prove to me how shallow she is. The errors are patent and they are explicable by what we say is a rather shallow analysis of the admissible value of those utterances in the record of interview. Synonyms superficial, facile, glib, simplistic, oversimplified, schematic, slight, flimsy, insubstantial, lightweight, empty, trivial, trifling 1.4 (of breathing) taking in little air. Example sentencesExamples He paused abruptly and David opened his eyes slowly; lowering his arms down, he listened to the man's shallow breathing as he muttered something barely audible. His breathing was shallow, even, and mathematically perfect, each breath as large as the last, drawn out for the same amount of time. She pushed forward, rolling like a treadmill, trying to make her breaths shallow to preserve her air supply. His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were tightly closed. I was pressed up against him and my breathing was shallow. His breathing was shallow and his face was flushed. The next minute his partner's heart was racing, his breathing was shallow, and he wouldn't respond to anything Jim said, or shouted. He was trembling and his breathing was shallow and shaky. His breathing quickened, his breaths shallow and shaky, as if each one might be his last. His shallow breathing seemed to echo throughout the room. Her breathing is shallow as she tries to keep from crying. Dave sank down and sat on her front steps, breaths shallow, as though he was trying not to cry. His eyes were closed and his breathing was shallow. She heard her tent mates' shallow breathing in their repose. There was no reply save for the whelpling's shallow breathing. Jewel's breathing was shallow as she held back tears. She'd looked terribly pale and her breathing was very shallow. Soon, she could hear the shallow breathing of people. Jasmin's breathing was shallow and her face flushed. nounˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ shallows An area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep. Example sentencesExamples She lay with her chin on her forearms, deliciously amused at the sight of Wolf plunging through the shallows, growling like an amphibious tiger. We swam to the shore and in every shallow we stopped. To see for yourself, inspect the shallows at a pond or pool where the water is clear but also sports some vegetation. He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river. Those on the front line of the hauling ropes stood knee deep in the shallows. Down by the water, kids are playing tag on a long, sandy beach and splashing in the brisk, gin-clear shallows of Redfish Lake. The components of Friedrich's seascapes are here in a fresh guise: figures gazing at a moonlit sea from rocky shallows at its edge. In and out of the shingle shallows the fish tried to find escape. Caelyn walked around in the cool shallows of the water with Justin at her side. The rest of the class graduated to the deep end, while I hung around the shallows or clung to the side of the pool. These elusive creatures live in sea-grass meadows, mangrove forests, and other secret shallows in the ocean. As summer had progressed, the weather had become sunnier and the water in the shallows of the bay had warmed up for swimming. He waded into the shallows and collapsed in knee deep water. The world of Holodrum is a land filled with season sensitive elements such as spring blooming flowers, snow covered caves as well as summer sapped shallows of water and pits clogged with autumn falling leaves. There was a rank smell, not the smell of dead flesh but something older and colder, like something prised out of a shell in the shallows of a tide pool. She walked along the banks of the lake, watching a water snake slither in the shallows. The tall cottonwood trees along the bluffs and in the shallows of the river swayed violently in the wind and several snapped in half. Taking Danny's hand the nurse led him into the shallows of the water. When she was done crying, she left with the baby to go and let Andrea swim in the shallows of the pond. The trout here also seem to prefer the deep pools during the day and venture out into the shallows only when the sun is off the water. verbˈSHalōˈʃæloʊ [no object] (of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place. the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed Example sentencesExamples Golden sunlight slanted across dark blue water, ruffled here and there with white lace or streaked brown with mud where it shallowed, but the central channel was wide and deep. A much larger area at the north end of the lake is approximately 24 m deep, shallowing to the south. Their pessimism is based on the condition of Jakarta's rivers, which have been shallowed and now mostly function as dumps for people living along the riverbanks. Since then, the channel shallowed and the docks silted in. Further in, the tunnel narrowed and shallowed slightly, until at 30m there was a distinct murky halocline. The airplane's nose dropped through the horizon and speed started increasing to a bit more than 150 knots, then the nose started climbing and the bank angle shallowed out. Origin Late Middle English: obscurely related to shoal.
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