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What is the adjective for shallower?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shallow which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shallow
  1. Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
  2. Extending not far downward.
  3. Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
  4. Lacking interest or substance.
  5. Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
  6. (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
  7. (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net
  8. Synonyms:
      9. superficial, frivolous, glib, simplistic, trifling, insubstantial, lightweight, schematic, simple, trivial, cursory, empty, facile, flimsy, frothy, hollow, ignorant, meaningless, oversimplified, puerile, sketchy, surface, uncritical, farcical, featherbrained, flighty, foolish, inane, paltry, petty, piddling, silly, unintelligent, unscholarly, unthinking, vain, skin-deep, one-dimensional, half-baked, wishy-washy, empty-headed, depthless, casual, surface-level, passing, without depth, oversimple, artificial, slapdash, flippant … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “They were both beautiful, popular people and their pairing had only seemed natural to everyone else despite how shallow I thought Mandy was.”
      “You must lay me in a shallow grave, where the gentle rain and the warm sun may reach me.”
      “Spire spun to see a cloaked figure at his side, the solitary lantern casting a shallow beam of light upon the face of Rose Everhart.”
shallower
  1. comparative form of shallow: more shallow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. glibber, simpler, emptier, flimsier, frothier, hollower, ignoranter, sketchier, flightier, foolisher, paltrier, pettier, sillier, vainer, wishy-washier, more superficial, more frivolous, more simplistic, more trifling, more insubstantial, more lightweight, more schematic, more trivial, more cursory, more facile, more meaningless, more oversimplified, more puerile, more uncritical, more farcical, more featherbrained, more inane, more unintelligent, more unscholarly, more unthinking, more one-dimensional, more half-baked, more empty-headed, flatter, shorter, slighter, more shoal, more glancing, more inconsiderable, narrower, thinner … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “A bed of reed-mace extended a few feet out on a shallower marginal shelf before the drop off into the deeper water.”
      “It will probably be shallower, and thus more dangerous, and followed by scores of aftershocks.”
      “By choosing appropriate mantissas and exponents, we can increase the resolution at shallower depths and degrade it at greater depths.”
shallowest
  1. superlative form of shallow: most shallow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lowest, shortest, smallest, squattest, squattiest, stumpiest, stubbiest
  3. Examples:
      4. “The shallowest shoals in the area had been reported at 37 metres, and depths earlier the same day had been between 50 metres and 300 metres.”
      “Compared to other post-war recessions, the downturn of 2001 is one of the shallowest on record.”
      “The Lee Park formation is the shallowest impermeable formation above which all other formations are considered to be unconsolidated.”
shallowed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of shallow
shallowing
  1. present participle of shallow
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