Hyphenation of shallow

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word shallow? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

shal-low

Definitions of shallow:

1.	A stretch of shallow water
2.	Make shallow The silt shallowed the canal
3.	Become shallow The lake shallowed over time
4.	Lacking physical depth Having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center Shallow water A shallow dish A shallow cut A shallow closet Established a shallow beachhead Hit the ball to shallow left field
5.	Not deep or strong Not affecting one deeply Shallow breathing A night of shallow fretful sleep In a shallow trance
6.	Lacking depth of intellect or knowledge Concerned only with what is obvious Shallow people His arguments seemed shallow and tedious

Synonyms of shallow:

adj	shallow, ankle-deep, knee-deep, fordable, neritic, reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly
adj	shallow, light, wakeful, skin-deep, superficial, surface
adj	superficial
noun	shoal, body of water, water
verb	shoal, change, alter, modify
verb	shoal, change

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.