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Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary
shallow
a stretch of shallow water
• Syn:
shoal
• Derivationally related forms:
shoal (for: shoal)
• Hypernyms:
body of water, water
1. make shallow
- The silt shallowed the canal
• Syn:
shoal
• Derivationally related forms:
shoal (for: shoal)
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. become shallow
- the lake shallowed over time
• Syn:
shoal
• Derivationally related forms:
shoal (for: shoal)
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
1. lacking physical depth;
having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center (Freq. 6)
- shallow water
- a shallow dish
- a shallow cut
- a shallow closet
- established a shallow beachhead
- hit the ball to shallow left field
• Ant:
deep
• Similar to:
ankle-deep, knee-deep, fordable, neritic, reefy,
shelfy, shelvy, shoaly
• Derivationally related forms:
shallowness
• Attrubites:
depth, deepness
2. not deep or strong;
not affecting one deeply
- shallow breathing
- a night of shallow fretful sleep
- in a shallow trance
• Ant:
deep
• Similar to:
light, wakeful
• Attrubites:
depth, deepness
3. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge;
concerned only with what is obvious
- shallow people
- his arguments seemed shallow and tedious
• Similar to:
superficial
• Derivationally related forms:
shallowness
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