profound

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    adj.

  • showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being

    the differences are profound

    a profound insight

    a profound book

    a profound mind

    profound contempt

    profound regret

  • of the greatest intensity; complete

    a profound silence

    a state of profound shock

  • far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; fundamental

    the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred

    the book underwent fundamental changes

    committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance

    profound social changes

  • coming from deep within one

    a profound sigh

  • (of sleep) deep and complete; heavy, sound, wakeless

    a heavy sleep

    fell into a profound sleep

    a sound sleeper

    deep wakeless sleep

  • situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded

    the profound depths of the sea

    the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea

    remote and unsounded caverns


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

profounder|profoundest
syn.: deep extreme great intense serious

ant.: shallow