Meaning & Definition of Shallow in English

1. A stretch of shallow water

1. Make shallow

• "The silt shallowed the canal"

2. Become shallow

• "The lake shallowed over time"

1. 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"

2. Not deep or strong

• Not affecting one deeply

• "Shallow breathing"

• "A night of shallow fretful sleep"

• "In a shallow trance"

3. Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge

• Concerned only with what is obvious

• "Shallow people"

• "His arguments seemed shallow and tedious"