shallow

shallow is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not deep; having little depth; shoal. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
2. superlative. Not deep in tone.
3. superlative. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
4. noun. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
5. noun. The rudd.
6. transitive verb. To make shallow.
7. intransitive verb. To become shallow, as water.
8. noun. a stretch of shallow water

   Synonyms: shoal

9. verb. become shallow

   "the lake shallowed over time"

   Synonyms: shoal

10. verb. make shallow

    "The silt shallowed the canal"

    Synonyms: shoal

11. adjective. 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"

12. adjective. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

    "shallow breathing"

    "a night of shallow fretful sleep"

13. adjective. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

    "shallow people"

    "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

Synonyms

shoal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shallow:

hallows

Common word forms

shallows, shallowed, shallower, shallowly, shallowest, shallowing, shallowness

Words from these letters

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