Usually means: Lacking depth in thought, understanding.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word shallow:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shallow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shallow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shallow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shallow, shallow: Wordnik
  7. shallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shallow, shallow: Wiktionary
  9. shallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shallow: Dictionary.com
  13. shallow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shallow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shallow (Porcupine Tree song), Shallow (album), Shallow (song), Shallow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shallow: Rhymezone
  19. shallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Shallow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. shallow: Free Dictionary
  23. shallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shallow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. shallow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shallow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shallow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shallow: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shallow, shallow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shallowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
adjective:  Extending not far downward.
adjective:  Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
adjective:  Lacking interest or substance; flat; one-dimensional.
adjective:  Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
adjective:  (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
adjective:  (of an angle) Not steep; close to horizontal.
noun:  A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
noun:  A fish, the rudd.
noun:  (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
noun:  A surname.

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