Shallow
Shallow , adjective
[Old English schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; compare Icelandic skjālgr wry, squinting, Anglo-Saxon sceolh, Dutch & German scheel, Old High German schelah. Compare Shelve to slope, Shoal shallow.]
1.
Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
2.
Not deep in tone. [Rare]
The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
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.
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
Shallow , noun
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.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand.
2.
(Zoology) The rudd. [Provincial English]
Shallow , transitive verb
To make shallow. — Sir T. Browne
Shallow , intransitive verb
To become shallow, as water.