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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

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

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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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1. Henry David Thoreau:

   Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

2. Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism:

   A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

3. Steve Brusatte:

   They weren’t sharks or whales but they were at home in shallow water, it doesn’t seem like it was some kind of fluke or random occurrence that they were there They must have just been at home in these environments, he continued. Maybe they were eating there. Maybe it was a place where there weren’t so many predators so they were a bit safer. Maybe it was a way for them to cool themselves down. We don’t really know. This is a whole new question now that is kind of emerging.

4. David Hone:

   They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small.

5. The National Weather Service:

   In addition, heavy rain and snowmelt may lead to renewed( more widespread) flooding from Monday to Tuesday, particularly in low elevations and shallow and warming snowpack areas.