Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   shallow

   /ˈʃaləʊ/

   adjective

   • 1. of little depth: "serve the noodles in a shallow bowl"
   • ▪ situated at no great depth: "the shallow bed of the North Sea"
   • ▪ varying only slightly from a specified or understood line or direction, especially the horizontal: "a shallow roof"
   • ▪ (of breathing) taking in little air.
   • 2. not exhibiting, requiring, or capable of serious thought: "a shallow analysis of contemporary society"

   noun

   • 1. an area of the sea, a lake, or a river where the water is not very deep.

   verb

   • 1. (of the sea, a lake, or a river) become less deep over time or in a particular place: "the boat ground to a halt where the water shallowed"

   Word Origin late Middle English: obscurely related to shoal2.

   Derivatives

   • 1. shallowly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • S

     1

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • W

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points