A stretch of shallow water.

synoniem: shoal.

Nederlands: ondiepte

Make shallow:
— The silt shallowed the canal.

synoniem: shoal.

Become shallow:
— The lake shallowed over time.

synoniem: shoal.

Lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center.

Roget 32: small, little; diminutive etc. (small in size) 193; minute; fine; inconsiderable, paltry etc. (unimportant) 643; faint etc. (weak) 160; slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager etc. (insufficient) 640; sparing; few etc. 103; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway; moderate, modest; tender, subtle.    inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small; atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic.    mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.    dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 209: shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly^†.   

Roget 491: ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized^†, unwitting, unweeting^†, unconscious; witless, weetless^†; a stranger to; unconversant^†.    uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age.    shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic; in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea etc. (uncertain) 475; caught tripping.    unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated^†, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed etc. 528; novel.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 493: bookless^†, shallow; ignorant etc. 491.   

Roget 499: unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless^†, brainless; halfbaked; having no head etc. 498; not bright etc. 498; inapprehensible^†.    weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed^†, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded^†; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed.    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^†, addle-brained^†; 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 etc. 699; prosaic etc. 843; hebetudinous^†.    childish, child-like; infantine^†, infantile, babyish, babish^†; puerile, anile; simple etc. (credulous) 486; old-womanish.    fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered etc. 475.    blockish^†, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning^†, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical^†; apish; simious^†.    foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.    narrow-minded etc. 481; bigoted etc. (obstinate) 606; giddy etc. (thoughtless) 458; rash etc. 863; eccentric etc. (crazed) 503.    [Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu [Fr.]; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical^†; extravagant etc. (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless etc. 645; inexpedient etc. 647; frivolous etc. (trivial) 643.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 643: unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account, of little importance, of no importance etc. 642; immaterial; unessential, nonessential; indifferent.    subordinate etc. (inferior) 34; mediocre etc. (average) 29; passable, fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common; ordinary etc. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant, inappreciable.    trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile etc. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak etc. 160; powerless etc. 158; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble^†, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin^†; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle^†, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.    poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible etc. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean, meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel^†, weedy, niggardly, scurvy, putid^†, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U.S.].    not worth the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw etc. n.; beneath notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina [It]; vain etc. (useless) 645.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: płyciutki, niegłęboki, powierzchowny, płytki

Not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply.

Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious.

Pools: płyciutki, płytki