Crossword clues for profound
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Profound \Pro*found"\, v. i. To dive deeply; to penetrate. [Obs.]
Profound \Pro*found"\, v. t.
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far
down. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Profound \Pro*found"\, n.
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The deep; the sea; the ocean.
God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned.
--Sandys. An abyss.
--Milton.
Profound \Pro*found"\, a. [F. profond, L. profundus; pro before, forward + fundus the bottom. See Found to establish, Bottom lowest part.]
Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. ``A gulf profound.''
--Milton.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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Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. ``Profound sciatica.''
--Shak.Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
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Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
What humble gestures! What profound reverence!
--Duppa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "characterized by intellectual depth," from Old French profund (12c., Modern French profond), from Latin profundus "deep, bottomless, vast," also "obscure; profound; immoderate," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fundus "bottom" (see fund (n.)). The literal and figurative senses both were in Latin, but English, having already deep, employed this word primarily in its figurative sense. Related: Profoundly.
Wiktionary
1 descend far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep. 2 Very deep; very serious 3 intellectual 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. 4 Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervade; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. 5 Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. n. 1 (context obsolete English) The deep; the sea; the ocean. 2 (context obsolete English) An abyss. v
1 (context obsolete English) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. 2 (context obsolete English) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
WordNet
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" [ant: superficial]
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; "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]
coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"
(of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: heavy, sound, wakeless]
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]
Usage examples of "profound".
Lastly, I wish to express my profoundest gratitude to Ruth Aley, who first saw the book in the manuscript.
Whether the legend and history of this Degree are historically true, or but an allegory, containing in itself a deeper truth and a profounder meaning, we shall not now debate.
This was the profound truth hidden in the ancient allegory and covered from the general view with a double veil.
No focus anymore, just mindless ambling, spending his blood, dying in profound shock and absolute terror.
A profound confession, coming from library, who was after all the repository of every bit of knowledge the members of the Associative had ever accumulated.
What had possessed the Archimage Binah to think that they were worthy to carry instruments of profound magical power?
The government of a mighty empire may assuredly suffice to occupy the time, and the abilities, of a mortal: yet the diligent prince, without aspiring to the unsuitable reputation of profound learning, always reserved some moments of his leisure for the instructive amusement of reading.
The maiden was attired in deep mourning, and though looking very pale, her surpassing beauty produced a strong impression upon Sir Francis Mitchell, who instantly arose on seeing her, and made her a profound, and, as he considered, courtly salutation.
Solms came from the besieging camp to investigate the sudden uproar, and to his profound astonishment was met by a deputation from the city asking for terms of surrender.
In consequence of their endlessly varied, constantly recurring, intensely earnest speculations and musings over this contrast of finite restlessness and pain with infinite peace and blessedness, a contrast which constitutes the preaching of their priests, saturates their sacred books, fills their thoughts, and broods over all their life, the Orientals are pervaded with a profound horror of individual existence, and with a profound desire for absorption into the Infinite Being.
And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its anaesthetic sleep.
While he has produced an unabashedly commercial page-turner, Braver has also probed, in a profound and often disturbing fashion, some fundamental questions about the ever-expanding role of biotechnology in modern life.
The Bravo ceased to adjust the disguise of his companion, and the profound stillness which succeeded his remark proved so painful to Antonio, that he felt like one reprieved from suffocation, when he heard the deep respiration that announced the relief of his companion.
In that profoundest and intensest of all his profound and intense passages, the apostle has occasion to seek about for some expression, some epithet, some adjective, as we say, to apply to sin so as to help him to bring out to his Roman readers something of the malignity, deadliness, and unspeakable evil of sin as he had sin living and working in himself.
Margaret was sure, somewhere in her mind, that if she were only strong enough, she could get over her profound aversion to the matrices, and be able to sit with Dio.