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| 1. | [ adjective ] showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being | |
| Examples: | "the differences are profound" "a profound insight" "a profound book" "a profound mind" "profound contempt" "profound regret" |
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| Related terms: | superficial deep thoughtful intimate intense scholarly | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] of the greatest intensity; complete | |
| Examples: | "a profound silence" "a state of profound shock" |
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| Related terms: | intense | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] (of sleep) deep and complete | |
| Synonyms: | sound wakeless heavy | |
| Examples: | "a heavy sleep" "fell into a profound sleep" "a sound sleeper" "deep wakeless sleep" |
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| Related terms: | deep | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] coming from deep within one | |
| Examples: | "a profound sigh" |
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| Related terms: | deep | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | |
| Synonyms: | fundamental | |
| Examples: | "the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred" "the book underwent fundamental changes" "committed a fundamental error" "profound social changes" |
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| Related terms: | significant | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | |
| Synonyms: | unplumbed unsounded unfathomed | |
| Examples: | "the profound depths of the sea" "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray "unplumbed depths of the sea" "remote and unsounded caverns" |
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| Related terms: | deep | |
| Similar spelling: |
profoundly propound profundity |
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