Definition of Shallow

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Shallow

Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

Not deep in tone.

Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.

A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

The rudd.

To make shallow.

To become shallow, as water.

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Shallow Quotations

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson

Shallow Translations

shallow in Danish is lav
shallow in Dutch is oppervlakkig, ondiep
shallow in German is seichten, seicht, seicht
shallow in Portuguese is raso
shallow in Spanish is poco profundo
shallow in Swedish is grund, ytlig

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