shallow – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of shallow

Adjective: shallow

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeshallower
Superlativeshallowest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore shallow
Superlativemost shallow

Sample Sentences

  • This crater is relatively shallow.
  • Sauté the onions in a shallow pan.
  • The corpus is massive, being deeper anteriorly and shallowest where the ramus takes origin. The corpi of both sides are more closely spaced to each other than in the living form, and the symphysis is narrower. [1977, Vincent J. Maglio, Dental and Skeletal Morphology of the Earliest Elephants, page 33:]
  • The two shallower fibriscesses may represent lysis due to the spread of the infection that entered the phalanx at its presumed puncture wound, the deep fibriscess on the palmar surface. [2016 February 25, “Record-Breaking Pain: The Largest Number and Variety of Forelimb Bone Maladies in a Theropod Dinosaur”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:]
  • The water is shallow here.
  • It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
  • The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
  • shallow learning
  • The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king. [1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:]
  • the sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring [1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:]
  • Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory. [2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian:]
  • a shallow climb
  • a shallow descent
  • a shallow bank angle
  • The planes then flew side by side with motors wide open in a very shallow climb[…]. [1922 July 24, Aviation Magazine:]
  • If they [the Apollo astronauts] come in too steeply, they will be crushed in the Earth’s atmosphere. If they come in too shallow, they will skip out and go into Earth orbit and not be able to return. [1968 December 20, CBS Evening News:]

Adjectives inflected like shallow

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.

Verbs referencing "shallow"

German Adjectives schal.