seicht

From Middle High German sīhte (“low, shallow”); cognate with sinken.[1]

• IPA^(key): /zaɪ̯çt/ (prescriptive standard)
• IPA^(key): /saɛ̯çt/ (Austria)

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯çt

seicht (strong nominative masculine singular seichter, comparative seichter, superlative am seichtesten)

1. shallow (of water only)

   Synonyms: untief, flach

2. (figuratively) simple, light, having little depth (e.g. of a book)

   Synonym: flach

• Like in English, Seicht is more likely to be used when the shallowness of a given book or film is intended (as e.g. in a romantic comedy), while flach tends to mean that something fails to reach the depth to which it aspires or which would be expected of it.

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