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say it: SHAL-oh
shallow is an adjective, verb and noun meaning "lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center". It is pronounced /ˈʃæloʊ/ — SHAL-oh. It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
“shallow people”
“his arguments seemed shallow and tedious”
a stretch of shallow water
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shallow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.