poor vs shallow

poor

adj
  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

shallow

adj
  • Lacking interest or substance. 

  • Not steep; close to horizontal. 

  • Not far forward, close to the net. 

  • Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide. 

  • Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing. 

  • Concerned mainly with superficial matters. 

  • Extending not far downward. 

noun
  • A costermonger's barrow. 

  • A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. 

  • A fish, the rudd. 

verb
  • To make or become less deep. 

How often have the words poor and shallow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )