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shallow

adj
/ˈʃæləʊ/UK/ˈʃæloʊ/US/ˈʃalo/

Etymology

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

  1. derived from *(s)kelh₁-✻ — “to parch, dry out”
  2. derived from *skal-✻
  3. inherited from schalowe — “not deep, shallow”

Definitions

  1. Having little depth

    Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

    • This crater is relatively shallow.
    • Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
    • The corpus is massive, being deeper anteriorly and shallowest where the ramus takes origin. The corpi of both sides are more closely spaced to each other than in the living form, and the symphysis is narrower.

  2. Extending not far downward.

    • The water is shallow here.

  3. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.

    • It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Lacking interest or substance

      Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.

      • The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.

    2. Not intellectually deep

      Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.

      • shallow learning
      • The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.

    3. Not deep in tone.

      • the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring

    4. Not far forward, close to the net.

      • Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.

    5. Not steep

      Not steep; close to horizontal.

      • a shallow climb
      • a shallow descent
      • a shallow bank angle

    6. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.

      • The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
      • A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but […]upon shallows of gravel.
      • dashed on the shallows of the moving sand

    7. A fish, the rudd.

    8. A costermonger's barrow.

      • You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.

    9. To make or become less deep.

      • The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).

    10. A surname.

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Derived

broad and shallow, given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, nonshallow, Shallowater, Shallow Bay, shallow brooks are noisy, shallow copy, shallow-copy, shallow cove, shallow embedding, shallow end, shallow fellow, shallow-fried, shallow-fry, shallow-hearted, shallowhearted, shallowish, shallowly, shallowness, shallowpate, shallow-waisted, Shallow Water, shallow-witted, unshallow

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shallow. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at shallow. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at shallow

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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