shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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(adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
(adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
(noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
shallowly | (adverb) in a shallow manner | - |
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shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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(noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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(noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
(noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
(verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
(verb) keep from expressing | - |
(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
(verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
(verb) utter unclearly | - |
(verb) engulf and destroy | - |
(verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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(noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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thalloid | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus | - |
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thallophyte | (noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf | - |
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thallophytic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of thallophytes | - |
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unalloyed | (adjective) free from admixture | - |
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unhallow | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, desecrate |
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unhallowed | (adjective) not hallowed or consecrated | Synonyms: unholy |
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wallop | (noun) a severe blow | - |
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(noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: impact |
(verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
(verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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(noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
(noun) a very hard hitter | - |
walloping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, whopping |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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(noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
(verb) delight greatly in | - |
(verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
(verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
(verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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