shallow

Words with a similar base: shallow

'shallow'

[shoal.n.02] as in: a stretch of shallow water

'shallow'

[shallow.v.01] as in: make shallow

Examples:
The silt shallowed the canal

'shallow'

[shallow.v.02] as in: become shallow

Examples:
the lake shallowed over time

'shallow'

[shallow.a.01] as in: lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

Examples:
shallow water
a shallow dish
a shallow cut
a shallow closet
established a shallow beachhead
hit the ball to shallow left field

'shallow'

[shallow.a.02] as in: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

Examples:
shallow breathing
a night of shallow fretful sleep
in a shallow trance

'shallow'

[shallow.s.01] as in: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

Examples:
shallow people
his arguments seemed shallow and tedious

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