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Shallower

Shallow \Shal"low\, a. [Compar. Shallower; superl. Shallowest.] [OE. schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skj[=a]lgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve to slope, Shoal shallow.]

  1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. ``Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.''
    --Milton.

  2. Not deep in tone. [R.]

    The sound perfecter and not so shallow and jarring.
    --Bacon.

  3. Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.

    The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
    --Bacon.

    Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.
    --Milton.

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shallower

a. (en-comparative of: shallow)

Usage examples of "shallower".

Kosmos thus exerts an omega pull on the shallower and narrower contexts, and when that particular wider depth is reached, that particular omega pull subsides, with the new depth finding that it now exists in a yet-wider and yet-deeper context of its own, which now exerts an unrelenting omega force to once again transcend, to once again embrace more of the Kosmos with care and consciousness.

I suggested in chapter 2, each of these theorists, at their best, is trying to point to a larger context that, when discovered and acknowledged, helps liberate us from a narrower and shallower imprisonment.

Rather, I am free only when I act from the worldcentric stance given by my own rationality, free because I transcend these lesser and shallower engagements, engagements that proceed without benefit of universal compassion and categorical care, and thus engagements that hurt me as well.

In shallower waters, additional layers of protection are laid on, beginning with a steel antishark jacket.

Lifting the top tray of instruments, he revealed another, shallower tray, from which he drew out a fat squarc-bound book, some eight inches wide, covered in Scuffed black leather.

Lifting the top tray of instruments, he revealed another, shallower tray, from which he drew out a fat squarc-bound book, some eight inches wide, covered in Scuffed black leather.

And until it takes the larger and deeper context into account, the limitations of its own shallower position will torment it, inflict it with the agony of incompleteness, tear at its boundaries with hints of something deeper, higher, more meaningful.

Whitehouse had been thrown out of one of the canoes as she swung in a rapid current, and the canoe had rubbed him and pressed him to the bottom as she passed over him, and had the water been two inches shallower must inevitably have crushed him to death.

And now we can see why: when reason takes up myth, it befriends the being but negates its partialness, and thus frees the mythic structure from its imprisonment in a shallower occasion.

Tactically, they were far more agile than the Guard, relying on shallower pike formations to hold an enemy in play while billmen swept out around his flanks, and Sean’s modifications should make them even deadlier .

It is much shallower by the time it emerges into Chinle Valley and becomes a mere drainage wash as it meanders northward toward Utah through the Greasewood Flats.

If it is working (in its own way, in its own place), then that ends the discussion about values, about which system is higher or lower, deeper or shallower, better or worse, more encompassing or less encompassing.

The boats that stayed in shallower water had flat bottoms for less draft, lower freeboards, rounded bows with the masts forward and little cabins at the stern.

Tithonium was higher than lus, wilder, untouched by human hands, seldom traveled in, because it was a dead end to the east, where it narrowed and became rough-floored as it got shallower, then abruptly stopped.

There was still need for quick thinking and careful steering, because shallows grew up in the middle of the river, and the deep channels divided and redivided, coursing ever faster over the bottom, and growing ever shallower until at last the rocky ledge underneath was passed and the water slid over a steep sharp edge into water comparatively deep and compartively slow.