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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishschalowe(“not deep, shallow”); apparently related toMiddle Englishschalde,schold,scheld,schealde(“shallow”), fromOld Englishsċeald(“shallow”), fromProto-Germanic*skal-, fromProto-Indo-European*(s)kelh₁-(“to parch, dry out”).[1] Related toLow GermanScholl(“shallow water”). See alsoshoal.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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shallow (comparativeshallowerormoreshallow,superlativeshallowestormostshallow)

  1. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
    This crater is relativelyshallow.
    Sauté the onions in ashallow pan.
    • 1977, Vincent J. Maglio,Dental and Skeletal Morphology of the Earliest Elephants, page33:
      The corpus is massive, being deeper anteriorly andshallowest 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.
    • 2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, inPLOS ONE‎[1],→DOI:
      The twoshallower fibriscesses may represent lysis due to the spread of the infection that entered the phalanx at its presumed puncture wound, the deep fibriscess on the palmar surface.
  2. Extending not far downward.
    The water isshallow here.
  3. Concerned mainly withsuperficial matters.
    It was a glamorous butshallow lifestyle.
  4. Lacking interest orsubstance;flat;one-dimensional.
    The acting is good, but the characters areshallow.
  5. Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
    Synonym:skin-deep
    shallow learning
  6. (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      the sound perfecter and not soshallow and jarring
  7. (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
    • 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, inThe Guardian‎[2]:
      Rosol spurned the chance to finish off ashallow 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.
  8. (of anangle) Notsteep; close tohorizontal.
    ashallow climb
    ashallow descent
    ashallow bank angle
    • 1922 July 24,Aviation Magazine:
      The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a veryshallow climb[…].
    • 1968 December 20,CBS Evening News:
      If they [the Apollo astronauts] come in too steeply, they will be crushed in the Earth’s atmosphere. If they come in tooshallow, they will skip out and go into Earth orbit and not be able to return.

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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having little depth and significantly less deep than wide
extending not far downward
concerned mainly with superficial matters
lacking interest or substance
not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
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Noun

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shallow (pluralshallows)

  1. A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
    The ship ran aground in an unexpectedshallow.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but[…]uponshallows of gravel.
    • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      dashed on theshallows of the moving sand
    • 1895,H. G. Wells,The Time Machine:
      It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in ashallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream.
    • 1941,Theodore Roethke, “The Premonition”, inOpen House, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A[braham] Knopf,→OCLC; republished inThe Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London:Faber and Faber […],1968,→OCLC,page 6:
      He dipped his hand in theshallow:
      Water ran over and under
      Hair on a narrow wrist bone;[…]
  2. A fish, therudd.
  3. (historical) Acostermonger'sbarrow.
    • 1871,Belgravia, volume14, page213:
      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'sshallow.

Usage notes

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  • Usually used in the plural form.

Translations

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shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water

See also

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Verb

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shallow (third-person singular simple presentshallows,present participleshallowing,simple past and past participleshallowed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become lessdeep.
    • 2009 February 6, Andrew Z. Kruget al., “Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota”, inScience‎[3], volume323, number5915,→DOI, pages767–771:
      Theshallowing 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 ).

References

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  1. ^Pokorny, Julius (1959),Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag,page927

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