shallow

Adjective

• lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious
  • shallow people
    
  • his arguments seemed shallow and tedious
    

• not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply
  • shallow breathing
    
  • a night of shallow fretful sleep
    
  • in a shallow trance
    

• 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
    

Noun

• a stretch of shallow water

Verb

• become shallow
  • the lake shallowed over time
    

• make shallow
  • The silt shallowed the canal