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Exact Match:

shallow

lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center; "shallow water"; "a shallow dish"; "a shallow cut"; "a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"; "hit the ball to shallow left field"

not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance"

lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"

make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"

Synonyms:

• airy,
• amateur,
• amateurish,
• ankle-deep,
• asinine,
• bank,
• bar,
• birdbrained,
• birdwitted,
• catchpenny,
• coral reef,
• cursory,
• dabbling,
• depthless,
• dilettante,
• dilettantish,
• empty,
• epidermal,
• fatuous,
• featherbrained,
• few,
• fill in,
• fill up,
• flat,
• flighty,
• flimsy,
• fluffy,
• foolish,
• footling,
• ford,
• fribble,
• fribbling,
• frivolous,
• frothy,
• futile,
• half-assed,
• half-baked,
• half-cocked,
• idle,
• immature,
• inane,
• inconsequential,
• inconsiderable,
• insignificant,
• jejune,
• knee-deep,
• light,
• little,
• low,
• meager,
• miniature,
• negligible,
• no great shakes,
• not deep,
• nugacious,
• nugatory,
• on the surface,
• otiose,
• petty,
• picayune,
• picayunish,
• reef,
• sandbank,
• sandbar,
• sciolistic,
• shallow-headed,
• shallow-minded,
• shallow-pated,
• shallow-rooted,
• shallow-witted,
• shallows,
• shelf,
• shoal,
• shoal water,
• shoals,
• short,
• silly,
• silt up,
• skin-deep,
• slender,
• slight,
• small,
• smattering,
• sophomoric,
• superficial,
• surface,
• thin,
• tidal flats,
• tiny,
• trifling,
• trite,
• trivial,
• unimportant,
• unprofound,
• vacuous,
• vain,
• vapid,
• volatile,
• wetlands,
• windy