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Definition of Profound

1. Adjective. Showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth. "Profound regret"

2. Adjective. Of the greatest intensity; complete. "A state of profound shock"

3. Adjective. Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something. "Profound social changes"

4. Adjective. Coming from deep within one. "A profound sigh"

5. Adjective. (of sleep) deep and complete. "Deep wakeless sleep"

6. Adjective. Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed. "Remote and unsounded caverns"

Definition of Profound

1. a. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.

2. n. The deep; the sea; the ocean.

3. v. t. To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.

4. v. i. To dive deeply; to penetrate.

Definition of Profound

1. Adjective. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. ¹

2. Adjective. Very deep; very serious ¹

3. Adjective. 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. ¹

4. Adjective. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. ¹

5. Adjective. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. ¹

6. Noun. (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean. ¹

7. Noun. (obsolete) An abyss. ¹

8. Verb. (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. ¹

9. Verb. (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Profound

1. intellectually deep and penetrating [adj -FOUNDER, -FOUNDEST] / something that is very deep [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Profound

profligacy profligate profligated profligately profligateness profligates profligating profligation profligatory profluence

profluent proform proforma proformas proforms profound (current term) profounded profounder profoundest profounding

profoundly profoundly deaf profoundness profoundnesses profounds profre profred profs profulgent profundities

Literary usage of Profound

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"profound SHOCK FOLLOWING A CRUSH OF THE ARM. NT, male, aged twenty-three years, was brought to the Pennsylvania Hospital October 14, 1900, by the patrol ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"profound was the stillness, save pussy's soft purring, And a similar sound ... Exclaims pretty Kitty in wonder profound. At the top of the stair she peeps ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"profound thought, of strong religious convictions, and are written in a solidly ... He had a profound sense not only of the dignity of human nature, ..."

4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Phoebus Apollo moved, and with all ease Trod down the piled banks' of the trench profound, Thrusting them to its midst ; and bridged a path Across it, ..."

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