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Meaning of shallow

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shallow
      adj 1: 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"
             [ant: {deep}]
      2: not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow
         breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow
         trance" [ant: {deep}]
      3: lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with
         what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed
         shallow and tedious"
      n 1: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shoal}, {shallow}]
      v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn:
           {shallow}, {shoal}]
      2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn:
         {shallow}, {shoal}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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