Antonyms 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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. shallow

   Antonyms:
   acute, astute, clear-sighted, crafty, cunning, discerning, discriminating, keen, knowing, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, subtile, subtle

   Synonyms:
   blind, dull, idiotic, imbecile, short-sighted, stolid, stupid, undiscerning, unintelligent

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1. shallow

   Antonyms:
   deep, profound

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

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shoal, shallowadjective

   a stretch of shallow water

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

   Synonyms:
   school, shoal

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"

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

   Synonyms:
   shoal

6. shallow, shoalverb

   become shallow

   "the lake shallowed over time"

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

   Synonyms:
   shoal

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1. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   shoal, superficial, frivolous, senseless

How to use shallow in a sentence?

1. Sophocles:

   Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

2. Garrison Keillor:

   It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

3. Thomas Jr.:

   I told Prince Harry, ‘I think she’s going to ruin your life,' she’s very shallow.

4. John Cassabria:

   I dove into the pool with my shoes, wallet, car keys -- the whole nine, and I swam with him( Luka) in my arms the best I could hold him from the midway point of the pool to the shallow end and hoisted him and John Cassabria out of the pool.

5. Pascal Lee:

   Water ice is, at present, not stable at the very surface of Mars near the equator at these elevations, so, it’s not surprising that we’re not detecting any water ice at the surface. It is possible that all the glacier’s water ice has sublimated away by now. But there’s also a chance that some of it might still be protected at shallow depth under the sulfate salts.

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