Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
- 2superlative
Not deep in tone.
- 3superlative
Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
- 4noun
A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
- 5noun
The rudd.
- 6transitive verb
To make shallow.
- 7intransitive verb
To become shallow, as water.
- 8noun
a stretch of shallow water
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- 9verb
become shallow
"the lake shallowed over time"
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- 10verb
make shallow
"The silt shallowed the canal"
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- 11adjective
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"
- 12adjective
not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
"shallow breathing"
"a night of shallow fretful sleep"
- 13adjective
lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
"shallow people"
"his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
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