Profound \Pro*found"\, n.
1. The deep; the sea; the ocean.
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God in the fathomless profound
Hath all this choice commanders drowned. --Sandys.
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2. An abyss. --Milton.
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Profound \Pro*found"\, v. t.
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far
down. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Profound \Pro*found"\, v. i.
To dive deeply; to penetrate. [Obs.]
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Profound \Pro*found"\, a. [F. profond, L. profundus; pro before,
forward + fundus the bottom. See Found to establish,
Bottom lowest part.]
1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a
great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." --Milton.
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2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching
to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning;
thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a
profound scholar; profound wisdom.
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3. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading;
overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a
profound sleep. "Profound sciatica." --Shak.
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Of the profound corruption of this class there can
be no doubt. --Milman.
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4. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility;
lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
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What humble gestures! What profound reverence!
--Duppa.
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profound
adj 1: 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"
[ant: superficial]
2: of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence";
"a state of profound shock"
3: far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the
nature of something; "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"
[syn: fundamental]
4: coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"
5: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a
profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
[syn: heavy, sound, wakeless]
6: situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have
been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea";
"the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray;
"unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded
caverns" [syn: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded]
WordNet (r) 2.0
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "profound":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, absolute, absorbing, abstract, abstruse, abysmal, acute,
analytical, ankle-deep, arcane, arrant, astronomic, astute, awful,
broad-minded, cabbalistic, civilized, classical, colossal,
complete, consummate, crass, cryptic, cultivated, cultured,
decided, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-felt,
deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted,
deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk,
deep-sunken, deepgoing, deepish, deepsome, definitive, discerning,
downright, educated, egregious, elephantine, encyclopedic,
enigmatic, enormous, epic, erudite, esoteric, extreme, flagrant,
giant, giantlike, gigantic, glaring, great, gross, hard, heartfelt,
heavy, hermetic, heroic, hidden, homefelt, huge, immense,
incomprehensible, indecipherable, indelible, infinite, informed,
inscrutable, insightful, intellectual, intense, intolerable,
intricate, involved, jumbo, keen, knee-deep, knotty, knowing,
knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, mammoth, mighty,
monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, mysterious,
mystifying, obscure, occult, out-and-out, outright, overpowering,
overwhelming, pansophic, penetrating, perfect, pervading, piercing,
poignant, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, positive, precious,
prodigious, pronounced, proper, puzzling, rank, recondite, regular,
sagacious, sage, sapient, scholarly, scholastic, secret, sharp,
shattering, shocking, sincere, stark, stark-staring, studious,
stupendous, subtle, superlative, surpassing, terrible, the veriest,
thorough, thoroughgoing, titanic, total, towering, transcendental,
tremendous, tricky, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable,
unequivocal, unfathomable, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved,
unspoiled, utter, vast, well-informed, well-read, wise,
wise as Solomon
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
fundamental, heavy, sound, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded, wakeless
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