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Definition: Shallow |
ShallowAdjective1. Lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension; downward ("shallow water"; "a shallow dish"); or inward from an outer surface ("a shallow cut"); or backward ("a shallow closet"; "established a shallow beachhead"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to shallow left field"). 2. Not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply; "shallow breathing"; "a night of shallow fretful sleep"; "in a shallow trance". 3. Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious". Noun1. A stretch of shallow water. Verb1. Make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal". 2. Become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shallow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Note: Shallow \Shal"low\, adjective. [Comparative Shallower; superlative Shallowest.]. (references) |
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Industry | Adjective describing a surface with too large a radius of curvature. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Shallow A weak-minded country justice, intended as a caricature of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote. He is described as one who had been a madcap in his youth, and still dotes on his wild tricks; he is withal a liar, a blockhead, and a rogue. (Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, and 2 Henry IV.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SHALLOW. A WHIP hat, so called from the want of depth in the crown. LILLY SHALLOW, a WHITE Whip hat. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Shallow means not very deep. It can be quite advantageous, e.g. a shallow pool is safe for swimming and a shallow ore is easy to mine.However, used metaphorically it is a derogative term used to describe people who are perceived to lack intellectual "depth". There is no standard definition of what constitutes "depth" in this sense, but usually an individual is considered deep if they seem to be interesting, original, creative, philosophical or intelligent. By contrast, somebody who appears superficial, naive, materialistic, petty, unimaginative or a conformist is likely to be denounced as being shallow, although simply lacking intelligence is not a criterion on its own.
The stereotypical shallow person in western societies
A person who is a heavy consumer of the media and marketing industries, tends to be gullible and easily-influenced, and lacks the cynicism and discernment that allows less "shallow" people to "see through" the advertisements and propaganda. He/she is more easily pleased than other people, commonly without significant intellectual stimulation, often content to read magazines about the lives of celebrities or watch television shows that many people would consider pointless and irrelevant.
Behaviors that are considered shallow
Shallow people typically embrace stereotyped social roles, especially gender roles. They usually place excessive value on the appearance of something, sometimes judging themselves and others entirely by their looks, which gives the impression of vanity and arrogance even though they may possess neither of these attributes.
Conversation with shallow people tends to remain on a very superficial level, often relating to the everyday details of their lives or the affairs of others; gossip is almost exclusively the domain of the shallow. This is not to suggest however that shallow people are malicious or vindictive; indeed they are often very positive and friendly in their outlook.
Shallowness and age
Young people are often stigmatized of being more shallow than other age groups. Some people argue that it is probably a consequence of the media: in which young people are expected and encouraged to lead shallow lives, in order that they will constitute a more pliable audience for exploitation by advertisers.
Shallowness is occasionally not genuine but an act performed by a person who is insecure or in need of attention.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shallow."
Synonym: ShallowSynonym: shoal (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: deep (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology; (altiloquence). |
Dissuasion | Pretense; (untruth); put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind; moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special pleading; (sophistry); soft sawder; (flattery). |
Ignoramus | Adjective: bookless, shallow; ignorant. |
Ignorance | Shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic; |
Imbecility Folly | Weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story. |
Shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous. | |
Shallowness | Adjective: shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly. |
Smallness | Dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent. |
Unimportance | Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Shallow |
| English words defined with "shallow": shallow fording. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "shallow": LILY SHALLOW ♦ shallow binding, SHALLOW PATE, shallow water. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "shallow": Whiskin. (references) |
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Screenplays | That was shallow, cheap, and based solely on hormones (Freakazoid!; writing credit: Alan Burnett; Paul Dini) Sure, I'm not funny anymore. There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) You have feelings, you just have them buried somewhere in a shallow grave in Jersey (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor) Have they called up with a reentry plan yet? 'Cause we're coming in too shallow, we're coming in too damn fast (Apollo 13; writing credit: Jim Lovell; Jeffrey Kluger) Renee's not the shallow type (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith) | |
Lyrics | Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water (GREEN RIVER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Be color blind, don't be so shallow (Free Your Mind; performing artist: En Vogue) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Shallow Well Project (1966) In a Shallow Grave (1988) | |
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 | Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa. Complex patterns can be seen in the shallow waters along its coastline, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA. |  | Extensive wetlands lie near the town of Yellowknife, near the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories, Canada. The shallow lakes seen in this image have formed in grooves in the landscape that were carved by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Credit: NASA. |
 | Shallow water bathymetry Sand waves off Padre Island Delineation possible because of widespread use of recording fathometers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Leo Otis Colbert with Dorsey Fathometer No. 3 The first effective shallow and deep water echosounder Operator watched flashing light On the ship OCEANOGRAPHER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The Virgin Islands - tropical or desert? Shallow stream and rainforest on the west end of St. Croix. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Point Udall, the easternmost point of U. S. territory in the Western Hemisphere. Note wave refraction patterns in the shallow water to the left of the point. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Navy reservists shuttling survey crew's annual supplies ashore with "Water Buffalo" from an LST of the Barrow Expedition (BAREX). Shallow water necessitated anchoring offshore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | This is an image that shows Barren Island after the restoration work was completed. Dredge material was placed to support the planting. The planting was conducted to allow the marsh to fill in and establish itself before the geotube disintegrated. Prior to the restoration, this area was a high-energy shallow water environment. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Chris Doley of the NOAA Restoration Center fishing gillnets to collect larger fish that inhabit near-shore shallow water habitats. The numbers and types of species were measured to compare and determine large species fish use of shallow water habitats at Poplar Island. The nets used had 3 sizes of mesh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Shiner Perch, Cymtogaster aggregata, is found in shallow waters during summer months and in waters up to 146 meters in the winter. Body length is up to 21 cm with females growing larger than males. The body is bright silver with broken longitudinal dark stripes separated by three vertical yellow bars. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Shadow in Shallow Water" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A swimmer casts a shadow in sand leaving the water. Visit: http://www.qr5.com ." | "No Diving" by Jeremy Lounds Commentary: "A homemade "no diving" sign for a shallow marsh near Lake Superior." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. |
| Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. | |
Harold Coffin | Feminine logic is fallacious, shallow, inconsistent, irrelevant, capricious, transparent -- and irrefutable. |
John Milton | Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. |
Oscar Wilde | Only the shallow know themselves. |
| Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect. |
Thomas Carlyle | Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | That, surely, were a shallow view of it. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The sea had fallen below the line of seawrack on the shallow side of the breakwater and already the tide was running out fast along the foreshore |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Your reasons are too shallow and too quick |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom edged the truck off the road and across the shallow roadside ditch, and he pulled up in the shadow |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This can occur if your well has cracked casings, is poorly constructed, or is too shallow. (references) | |
Avoid drinking untreated water from shallow wells, lakes, rivers, springs, ponds, and streams. (references) | ||
Divide large amounts of leftovers into small, shallow containers for quick cooling in the refrigerator. (references) | ||
Business | Oil and gas exploration opportunities in Romania are widespread since most of the present production is shallow and deeper horizons are under-explored even in the old producing areas. (references) | |
A large Norte supermarket in an upper-middle class area of Buenos Aires devotes only 12 meters of aisle space (eye-level, shallow ½ meter high glass door freezers located just above deeper floor freezers), with very little variety and no imports. (references) | ||
Economic History | Yemen | However, Yemeni markets are shallow and can alter rapidly as the preferences of the general populace change. (references) |
Azerbaijan | A new shallow-water jack-up rig began operation in early 2001, increasing offshore drilling capacity in shallow waters. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | In 2000, Caspian Geophysical expanded its services using 2D/3D seismic technology in shallow water and transition zones. (references) | |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | One week later, Nkala's body was found in a shallow grave 25 miles southwest of Bulawayo. (references) |
Guinea | At least 21 detainees disappeared from the prison, and several detainees reported seeing fresh, shallow graves within the prison grounds. (references) | |
Political Economy | Guatemala | Democracy's roots are still relatively shallow in Guatemala. (references) |
Trade | Guatemala | Capital markets in Guatemala have been developing rapidly in recent years but remain fairly shallow. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing. Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit. So the Recording Angel, when Hearst died, Erased all entries of his own and cried: "I'll judge you by your diary." Said Hearst: "Thank you; 'twill show you I am Saint the First" -- Straightway producing, jubilant and proud, That record from a pocket in his shroud. The Angel slowly turned the pages o'er, Each stupid line of which he knew before, Glooming and gleaming as by turns he hit On Shallow sentiment and stolen wit; Then gravely closed the book and gave it back. "My friend, you've wandered from your proper track: You'd never be content this side the tomb -- For big ideas Heaven has little room, And Hell's no latitude for making mirth," He said, and kicked the fellow back to earth. "The Mad Philosopher" |
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| "Shallow" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Shallow" is used about 1,406 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.93% | 1,405 | 5,718 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,406 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shallow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shallow | Last name | 170 | 45,461 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "shallow": become shallow ♦ make shallow ♦ perch angling shallow ♦ shallow binding ♦ shallow depression ♦ shallow fog ♦ shallow fording ♦ shallow fording capability ♦ shallow low ♦ shallow mind ♦ shallow person ♦ shallow two handled basin ♦ shallow water ♦ shallow well. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shallow": Shallow-bodied, Shallow-brained, shallow-buried, shallow-changing, shallow-dipping, shallow-draft, shallow-draught, shallow-enough, Shallow-hearted, shallow-hipped, shallow-marine, shallow-minded, Shallow-pated, shallow-pitched, shallow-pool, shallow-rooted, shallow-rooting, shallow-seal, shallow-skied, Shallow-waisted, shallow-water. | |
Ending with "shallow": millimetre-shallow. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shallow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ujëpakë, i përciptë (cursory, perfunctory, superficial), i imët (cramped, detailed, fine, minute, petite, pinpoint, puny, shoal, small, small minded, thin, tiny, wee, wispy), i cekët (facile, half-baked, shoal, superficial), cektësirë, cekëtinë (shoal, wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | مياه ضحلة (shoal), ضحل (shallow-minded, shoal). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам по-плитък (shoal), ставам плитък, намалявам дълбочината на, повърхностен (airy, blanket, borax, cheap, cursory, dilettante, external, facile, flimsy, frothy, glib, lip-deep, outward, perfunctory, sketchy, skin deep, slick, subaerial, sublime, superficial, surface, terrain, trumpery, yeasty), плитък (fleet, shoal, superficial, transparent), плитчина (bar, cay, flat, hurst, mud-bank, rift, shelf, shoal, slew), плитководен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 譾 (stupid), 鄙陋 (superficial), 粗淺 (superficial), 淺 , 浅, 俴 (short, thin plate). (various references) | |
Czech | všední (commonplace, corny, everyday, flat, ordinary, trite, trivial), povrchní (airy, casual, cheap, desultory, dollish, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, perfunctory, scrappy, sketchy, skin deep, superficial), mìlký (flat, thin). (various references) | |
Danish | lav (low, superficial). (various references) | |
Dutch | oppervlakkig (shallowly, superficial), ondiep (superficial). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malprofunda (superficial). (various references) | |
Farsi | کم ژرفا (Shoal), کم عمق کردن , کم عمق (Shoal, Unmeaning), کم اب , سطحی (Planar, Sketchy, Superficial, Surface). (various references) | |
Finnish | matalikko (shoal), matala (low). (various references) | |
French | superficiel. (various references) | |
Frisian | ûndjip (superficial). (various references) | |
German | flach (even, flat, flat-bottomed, gentle, insipid, level, low, planar, platy, shallows, smooth, superficial, tabular, vapid, vapidly), untiefe (depth, shallows, shelf, shoal), seicht (facile, fordable, frail, insipid, milk and water, shallowly). (various references) | |
Greek | ρηχόσ, ρηχός, ρηχό (concave), ρηχά νερά (shallow water, shoal), ρηχά, επιπόλαιοσ (cursory, flighty, flippant, frivolous, perfunctory, sciolistic, skin deep, superficial, thoughtless), επιπόλαιος (frivolous, superficial), αβαθέσ μέροσ, αβαθήσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לרדד (flatten), שטחי (cursory, perfunctory, sketchy, skin deep, superficial, surface), פשטני (plain, simple, superficial), רדוד (beaten out, beating out, flattened, flattening, shallowing, shoaly, stamping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sekély (Ford, shoal). (various references) | |
Icelandic | grunnur (superficial). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dangkal (banal, superficial), cetek (superficial). (various references) | |
Italian | basso (base, bass, bottom, ignoble, low, low down, lower, Nether, short, small, superficial). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薄手 (light, of thin make, slight wound, thin), 浅い (superficial), 浅い (superficial), 上っ調子 (flippant, frivolous). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うすで (light, of thin make, slight wound, thin), うわっちょうし (flippant, frivolous), あさい (superficial). (various references) | |
Korean | 얕은. (various references) | |
Manx | thanney (attenuated, flimsy, hollow, hollow as friendship, lank, lanky, lean, meagre, rare, scraggy, sharp face, skinny, slender, slim, sparely built, tenuous, thin, thin as paper, thin in build, thin of liquid, watery, watery of colour, watery of soup liquid, wateryliquid, weak, weak as solution, weedy), thannalaght, thannaghey (attenuate, bed in; thinning, cracking up of oil; shoal of waters, cracking up; shoal of waters, dilute, dilution, emaciate, liquefy, rarefaction, rarefy, rarefying, reduce, reduction, slenderize, slim, thin), follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, hollow, inane, platitudinous, run down, vacant, vacuous, void, waste, waste in town), eddrym (airy, airy material, benign, bird-witted, empty, empty as head, feint, flighty, light, lightweight, slight, weak, weak as blow), eaghtyragh (pelagic, skindeep, superficial, superior, surface feeding, top-level), aaghowin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allowshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | baixo (base, bass, bass voice, basso, caitiff, common, dumpy, dwarfish, hereinafter, hollow, ignoble, lily-livered, low, low-down, lowered, mean, mediocre, menial, nether, obsequious, pygmean, raffish, rascally, reptile, scummy, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, short, slavish, small, sordid, superficial, vulgar, vulgarian), raso (champaign, flat, level, plain, plane, shallows, smooth). (various references) | |
Romanian | superficial (cursory, external, facile, flimsy, flippant, gossamer, passing, perfunctory, skin deep, slight, sublime, superficial, superficially, thin, tinsel, trivial, yeasty), vad (crossing, Ford, headway, way), puţin (a bit, a little, dose, exiguous, little, meager, meagre, mouthful, rather, reduced, short, slightly, small, some, something, somewhat), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), loc puţin adânc (shoal), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), gãunos (hollow, inane, sunken), frivol (Corky, fast, feather-brained, flimsy, flippant, frail, frivolous, giddy, unbecoming), facil (easy, facile, superficial), banc de nisip la mare. (various references) | |
Russian | мель (shoal), мелководье (soundings), мелководный (shoal), мелкий (dusty, fine, minute, paltry, peanut politician, pettifogging, petty, piddling, potty, shoal, small minded, small time, small-time, two-by-four), маловодный, поверхностный;мелкий. (various references) | |
Scottish | tanalach (a shallow, shallow water). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | površan (cursory, flighty, frothy, gossamery, light minded, perfunctory, skin deep, superficial, supervacaneous), plitak (flat, low, shoal), plićak (ford, hurst, shoal). (various references) | |
Spanish | somero (sketchily, superficial), poco profundo (shoal), de poca profundidad (superficial). (various references) | |
Swedish | grund (bank, basic, basis, behalf, bottom, cause, cay, footing, foundation, ground, root, shoal, soil, superficial), ytlig (airy, flashy, flimsy, idleheaded, skin deep, superfical, superficial, yeasty). (various references) | |
Tagalog | mabábaw (superficial). (various references) | |
Turkish | sığlaştırmak, sığlaşmak (become shallow, shoal), sığ yer (Ford, shoal), sığ (fordable, shoaly), yüzeysel (cosmetic, skin deep, superficial, surface, tangential), derin olmayan, düzlemek (even, flatten, flush, plane, plaster, point up, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth out, smooth over, try out), üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, scratchy, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яalpak (petty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мілководний (shoal), мілина (bank, bar, beach, bench), поверховий (cursory, facile, frivolous, lip-deep, overly, perfunctory, sketchy, skin deep, superficial). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nông (fleet), hời hợt (airy, perfunctory, superficial), chỗ nông (shoal), chỗ cạn, cạn nông cạn. (various references) | |
Welsh | bas (bass). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | breve, brevem, breves, brevi, brevis, patina, scutras. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shallow": shallowed, shallower, shallowest, shallowing, shallowly, shallowness, shallownesses, shallows. (additional references) | |
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"Shallow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shalloe, shalloon, shallop, Shallowe, Shaqlawa, Shello, shellow, shilluk, Shirlow, shollow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shallow" (pronounced sha"lō) |
| 3 | -a" l ō | callow, Hallow, mallow, tallow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hallows. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: allows, hallos, hallow, hollas, sallow. | |
-2 letters: allow, awols, hallo, halls, halos, holla, howls, ollas, salol, shall, shawl, shoal, walls. | |
-3 letters: alls, alow, also, awls, awol, hall, halo, haws, hols, howl, hows, lash, laws, lows, olla, owls, sall, shaw, show, slaw, slow, sola, wall, wash, whoa. | |
-4 letters: all, als, ash, awl, hao, has, haw, how. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: shallows. | |
+2 letters: hallowers, sallowish, shallowed, shallower, shallowly, unhallows, wholesale. | |
+3 letters: hollowares, lowliheads, shallowest, shallowing, wholesaled, wholesaler, wholesales. | |
+4 letters: hollowwares, marshmallow, shallowness, wholesalers, wholesaling. | |
+5 letters: marshmallows, marshmallowy. | |
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