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shallow-pate

shallow-pate is the alternative form of shallowpate.

Meaning of shallowpate

Noun

shallowpate (plural shallowpates)

  1. (derogatory) One whose thinking is shallow or superficial.
    • There were Mr. and Mrs. Merriman, a pretty, vivacious little woman in the thirties; her husband, a jovial fellow, something of a shallow-pate, who laughed a good deal at other people's witticisms, and had thereby made himself extremely popular.1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Forms of shallow-pate

pluralshallow-pates

Questions about shallow-pate

What is shallow-pate the alternative form of?
Shallow-pate is the alternative form of shallowpate.

Words near shallow-pate in the dictionary

  1. shallow-fries
  2. shallow-fry
  3. shallow-frying
  4. shallow-hearted
  5. shallow-heartedness
  6. shallow-pate
  7. shallow-waisted
  8. shallow-witted
  9. shallow-wittedness
  10. Shallowater
  11. shallowed

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