Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
This crater is relatively shallow.
Extending not far downward.
The water is shallow here.
Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
A fish, the rudd.
A costermonger's barrow.
To make or become less deep.
The shallowing of Cenozoic age-frequency curves from tropics to poles thus appears to reflect the decreasing probability for genera to reach and remain established in progressively higher latitudes ( 9 ).
A surname.
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-,...
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You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.