Synonyms for shallow
ˈʃæl oʊshal·low

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1. shallownoun

   Antonyms:
   deep

2. shallowadjective

   Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.

   The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.

   Antonyms:
   deep

3. shallowadjective

   The water is shallow here

   Antonyms:
   deep

4. shallowadjective

   It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle

   Antonyms:
   deep

5. shallowadjective

   The acting is good, but the characters are shallow

   Antonyms:
   deep

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 2 votes

1. shallow

   Synonyms:
   blind, dull, idiotic, imbecile, short-sighted, stolid, stupid, undiscerning, unintelligent

   Antonyms:
   acute, astute, clear-sighted, crafty, cunning, discerning, discriminating, keen, knowing, penetrating, penetrative, perspicacious, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, subtile, subtle

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1. shallow

   Synonyms:
   shoal, slight, flimsy, trifling, simple, superficial, unprofound

   Antonyms:
   deep, profound

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1. shoal, shallowadjective

   a stretch of shallow water

   Synonyms:
   school, shoal

   Antonyms:
   deep-water, sound, unfathomable, unsounded, unfathomed, deep, walk-in(a), heavy, profound, abysmal, bottomless, abyssal, unplumbed, wakeless

2. shallowadjective

   lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

   "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"

   Antonyms:
   sound, bottomless, walk-in(a), profound, deep, deep-water, unplumbed, unsounded, unfathomable, wakeless, abysmal, heavy, unfathomed, abyssal

3. shallowadjective

   not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

   "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"

   Antonyms:
   unfathomable, abysmal, wakeless, deep, unplumbed, heavy, abyssal, unfathomed, profound, walk-in(a), deep-water, unsounded, sound, bottomless

4. shallowverb

   lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

   "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

   Antonyms:
   heavy, abyssal, wakeless, bottomless, walk-in(a), profound, unfathomable, unfathomed, deep, sound, unplumbed, abysmal, unsounded, deep-water

5. shallow, shoalverb

   make shallow

   "The silt shallowed the canal"

   Synonyms:
   shoal

   Antonyms:
   profound, unfathomable, unplumbed, deep, heavy, deep-water, walk-in(a), abyssal, unfathomed, bottomless, unsounded, wakeless, sound, abysmal

6. shallow, shoalverb

   become shallow

   "the lake shallowed over time"

   Synonyms:
   shoal

   Antonyms:
   unsounded, walk-in(a), deep-water, profound, abysmal, deep, heavy, wakeless, unplumbed, unfathomable, unfathomed, abyssal, bottomless, sound

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1. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   shoal, not deep

2. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   superficial, unintelligent, simple, ignorant, not profound

3. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   flimsy, trivial, frivolous, trifling, foolish, puerile, trashy

4. shallownoun

   Synonyms:
   shoal, flat, shelf, bank

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1. shallowadjective

   Synonyms:
   shoal, superficial, frivolous, senseless

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1. List of paraphrases for "shallow":

   superficial, shallow-water, surface, cursory, surficial, thin

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1. Adam Sarhan:

   And so far, this appears to be another healthy and shallow pullback in both size and scope.

2. Peter Marosszeky:

   The seas haven’t been very friendly, but the black boxes have a 30-day life and they will be able to find them, particularly in the shallow waters, it’s the weather that is causing the delay.

3. Kizza Ronald:

   The difference between a young man and a mature man is not the beard but the Brain(Reasoning) because even a young man can have beards but with shallow reasoning-Kizza Ronald-

4. Judge Hickson:

   If this is a shallow issue for people, it will dissipate when the next issue comes along.

5. Thomas Carlyle:

   Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.