shallow

/ʃˈæloʊ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
   “shallow water”
2. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
   “shallow breathing”
3. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
   “shallow people”

noun

1. a stretch of shallow water

verb

1. make shallow
   “The silt shallowed the canal”
2. become shallow
   “the lake shallowed over time”

Synonyms for shallow

• ankle-deep
• fordable
• neritic
• superficial
• reefy
• light
• shoal

Antonyms of shallow

• deep

Words that rhyme with shallow

• callow
• hallow
• mallow
• tallow
• ballo
• ballow
• balogh
• balow
• barbagallo
• bordallo
• caraballo
• cavallo
• corallo
• gallo
• gallow
• lallo
• mondallo
• pallo
• palo
• rallo
• ranallo
• salow
• sandalo
• schalow
• tallo
• tarallo
• vallo