ankle deep

adjective

Roget 208: deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged etc. 310; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene^†; underground.    bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian^†; benthal^†, benthopelagic^†; downreaching^†, yawning.    knee deep, ankle deep.    ... show more

Roget 209: shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep; just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly^†.   

Moby thesaurus: cursory, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepish, deepsome, depthless, epidermal, jejune, knee-deep, light, not deep, on the surface, profound, shallow, shallow-rooted, shoal, skin-deep, slight, superficial, surface, thin, trivial, unprofound ... show more.

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