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.
Shal"low, n. 1. A place in a body of water where the water is not deep;
a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
A swift stream is not heard in the channel, but upon shallows of
gravel.
Bacon.
Dashed on the shallows of the moving sand.
Dryden.