shallow
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈʃæloʊ/
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superficial
- She often makes shallow comments that lack real insight.
- a shallow character
- a shallow interpretation
- seem shallow
Their happiness is kind of shallow, so they look happy.
- Their happiness is kind of shallow, so they look happy.
- Chad GBT, like you said, is shallow and broad.
- Oh, so it's not like some shallow surface layer public opinion.
- I mean, really vain, really shallow, all the stuff.
- Like, I feel like that is a shallow comparison.
- But comedy in America to me was a little shallow, a little light.
- That what whatever he knew was very shallow.
- Because there is this level of, Oh well, we shouldn't be shallow or whatever the case may be.
- Or who cares if that person in your life is vain or shallow.
- And she has this gorgeous concept, Chris called winning shallow or winning deep.
- He is so shallow you could not get your ankles wet in him.
Examples
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Their aesthetics, likewise, seemed shallow and foreign next to the ancient traditions of the folk.
Academic text (1995) -
But all of the words she was prepared to say only sounded shallow and insincere.
Fiction book (1995) -
But I am not as shallow as you think I am.
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Characters are good, a little shallow, but...
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Their happiness is kind of shallow, so they look happy.
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Again, I like to think I'm not shallow, but but it does matter.
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I'm not as shallow as I make myself out to be.
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Like wow I sound so shallow, so vain.
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And you really thought I was so shallow that I wouldn't love you in another body?
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We live in the biggest capitalistic, shallow, vapid universe on the planet.
Synonyms
94
5.6
Not thorough and only about what is obvious, not deep
16
7.9
Not interesting or lively and often boring
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.8
A boat with a bottom that does not go deep so it can move in shallow water
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shallow originally meant 'not deep', from the old English root sceald, so a helpful image is something that only touches the surface and has no deep parts. That is why we call a person or idea 'shallow' when it lacks deep thought or strong feeling.