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

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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. Arnaud Scarpaci:

   These job figures are highlighting the widening gap between U.S. and European monetary policies. People are booking profits on U.S. stocks and rushing into Europe where quantitative easing is just starting, after such a rally, we're ripe for a pull-back in Europe, but the investment inflows are so strong that the dips remain shallow.

2. 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.

3. Gustavo Hernandez:

   A lot of companies have approached Pemex because we have knowledge of the shallow water basin with more than 40 years of exploration and 35 years of production.

4. Operations Scott Robb:

   The water was rising and deep for our people, so we use the ladder to get vests for the three patients in case they fell out and floated down, and then it was determined that on the other side of the river, it was a little more shallow for them to walk in and pull the patients out one by one and get them out on the other side.

5. 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.