Important and Shallow

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Important adjective - Having great meaning or lasting effect.

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Shallow is an antonym for important.

Shallow adjective - Lacking significant physical depth.

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Important is an antonym for shallow in topics: unintelligent, not deep.

Nearby Words: shallowed, shallowing

What an immature, self-important, inflated, cruel, shallow little creature, lacking in empathy and contemptuous of anyone who was not himself or his lackey.

Source: Music / Bob Dylan
With sufficiently large draft pools, conserving resources was more important than conserving manpower.... until 1915, that is, when they began to realise just how shallow their manpower-reserves actually were relative to the demands of the war.

Source: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Signature Style: He favours a minimalistic composition shape and color-wise, shallow focus and color coding to focus the viewer's attention on important elements; for example, he uses water and the color blue to convey calm and melancholy.

Source: Creator / Michael Mann

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