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

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1. shallow

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

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

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1. shallow

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

   Antonyms:
   deep, profound

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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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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

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1. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   shoal, superficial, frivolous, senseless

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1. List of paraphrases for "shallow":

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

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How to use shallow in a sentence?

1. Gerasimos Papadopoulos:

   It had a very shallow depth and thats why it was felt so strongly, it is too early to say whether this was the main earthquake, but there have been aftershocks of magnitude 3.5, 2.5 and 3.2 and that is encouraging. But we need more time and data to have a clear picture.

2. Stephen Franke:

   My positioning on the wave just wasn’t right, [It was] pretty shallow water, so I cut through the water pretty quick and went straight to the sand to my forehead.

3. Ashley Dean Mair:

   Pool of Shallow Waters

4. Thomas Jr.:

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

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.