shallow
US: /ˈʃæɫoʊ/
UK: /ʃˈæləʊ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
shallow /ʃælou/- tính từ
- nông, cạn
- shallow water: nước nông
- nông cạn, hời hợt
- a shallow love: tình yêu hời hợt
- nông, cạn
- danh từ
- chỗ nông, chỗ cạn
- chỗ nông, chỗ cạn
- động từ
- làm cạn; cạn đi
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective (shallower, shallowest)1 not having much distance between the top or surface and the bottom: a shallow dish + They were playing in the shallow end (= of the swimming pool). + These fish are found in shallow waters around the coast. + The body was found in a shallow grave. + shallow roots (= that grow near the surface of the ground)
Antonym: DEEP
2 (disapproving) (of a person, an idea, a comment, etc.) not showing serious thought, feelings, etc. about sth: This shows how shallow their commitment to the environment really is.
3 shallow breathing involves taking in only a small amount of air each time
shallowly adverb: He was breathing shallowly.
shallowness noun [U]
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 surface, skin-deep, superficial, thin, empty, flimsy, trivial, unimportant, slight, frivolous, idle, foolish:
If you read only comic books, your thoughts are bound to be shallow.
2 Often, shallows. shoal(s), sand bar, sandbank, bank, shelf:
This boat draws too much water to go fishing in the shallows.
Collocation
1 not deep
VERBS
be, look | become, get
The water gets quite shallow towards the shore.
| remain
ADV.
extremely, very | comparatively, fairly, quite, relatively
Don't worry, the water's quite shallow.
| enough, sufficiently
Follow the south shore, crossing the river where it is shallow enough.
2 not showing serious thought
VERBS
appear, be, seem
Tony seemed very shallow and immature.
ADV.
exceedingly, extremely, very | quite, rather
Concise dictionary
shallower|shallowest'ʃæləʊnoun
+a stretch of shallow water
verb
+make shallow
+become shallow
adj.
+lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center
+not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
+lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
