shallow definition

1. make shallow
• examples: The silt shallowed the canal
2. become shallow
• examples: the lake shallowed over time
3. lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
• examples: shallow water
• examples: a shallow dish
• examples: a shallow cut
• examples: a shallow closet
• examples: established a shallow beachhead
• examples: hit the ball to shallow left field
4. not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
• examples: shallow breathing
• examples: a night of shallow fretful sleep
• examples: in a shallow trance
5. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
• examples: shallow people
• examples: his arguments seemed shallow and tedious