Shallow word meaning and definition

[noun] a stretch of shallow water
[adjective] lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension; downward ("shallow water"; "a shallow dish"); or inward from an outer surface ("a shallow cut"); or backward ("a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to shallow left field")
[adjective] not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"
[adjective] lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"
[verb] become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
[verb] make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

\Shal"low\, a. [Compar. {Shallower}; superl. {Shallowest}.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. {Shelve} to slope, {Shoal} shallow.] 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. ``Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.'' --Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. [R.] The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring. --Bacon. 3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. --Bacon. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.
\Shal"low\, n. 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf. A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of gravel. --Bacon. Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand. --Dryden. 2. (Zo["o]l.) The rudd. [Prov. Eng.]
\Shal"low\, v. t. To make shallow. --Sir T. Browne.
\Shal"low\, v. i. To become shallow, as water.

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