1. shallow, shoal

a stretch of shallow water

• shoal

2. shallow, shoal

make shallow

Example Sentences:
'The silt shallowed the canal'

• shoal

3. shallow, shoal

become shallow

Example Sentences:
'the lake shallowed over time'

• shoal

4. shallow

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

Example Sentences:
'shallow water'
'a shallow dish'
'a shallow cut'
'a shallow closet'
'established a shallow beachhead'
'hit the ball to shallow left field'

• ankle-deep
• knee-deep
• fordable
• neritic
• reefy
• shelfy
• shelvy
• shoaly

5. shallow

not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

Example Sentences:
'shallow breathing'
'a night of shallow fretful sleep'
'in a shallow trance'

• light
• wakeful

6. shallow

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

Example Sentences:
'shallow people'
'his arguments seemed shallow and tedious'