shallow
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a stretch of shallow water
Types & categories
- body of water hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
make shallow
The silt shallowed the canal
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- shallow derivation
Sense 3 adjective
lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
shallow water
Related & opposite
- deep antonym
- depth attribute
- shallowness derivation
- shallow derivation
- ankle-deep similar to
- fordable similar to
- neritic similar to
- reefy similar to
Sense 4 verb
become shallow
the lake shallowed over time
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- shallow derivation
Sense 5 adjective
not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
shallow breathing
Related & opposite
Sense 6 adjective
lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
shallow people
Related & opposite
- superficiality derivation
- superficial similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shoal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shoal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | body of water |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | deep |
| 3 | attribute | Related & opposite | depth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallowness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | ankle-deep |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | fordable |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | neritic |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | reefy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | shallow |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | deep |
| 5 | attribute | Related & opposite | depth |
| 5 | similar to | Related & opposite | wakeful |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | superficiality |
| 6 | similar to | Related & opposite | superficial |