| ADJECTIVE | all | profound | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth |
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| all | profound | of the greatest intensity | |
| all | profound, fundamental | far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | |
| all | profound | coming from deep within one | |
| all | profound, heavy, sound, wakeless | (of sleep) deep and complete | |
| all | profound, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded | situated at or extending to great depth |
| Sounds | prowfaw'nd | |
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| Rhymes | abound ... wound: 56 rhymes with awnd... | |
| Meaning | showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth. | |
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| Narrower | deep | marked by depth of thinking |
| thoughtful | Having intellectual depth | |
| See also | intense | Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree |
| scholarly | characteristic of scholars or scholarship | |
| Opposite | superficial | Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious |
| Spanish | hondo, profunda, profundo | |
| Catalan | fondo, pregon, profund | |
| Nouns | profoundness | extremeness of degree |
| profundity, profoundness | intellectual depth | |
| profundity, profoundness | the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | |
| profundity | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | |
| Meaning | Of the greatest intensity; complete. | |
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| Broader | intense | Possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree |
| Spanish | profundo, profundo(a) | |
| Nouns | profoundness | extremeness of degree |
| Meaning | Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something. | |
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| Example | "profound social changes" | |
| Synonym | fundamental | |
| Broader | significant, important | Important in effect or meaning / meaning |
| Nouns | profoundness, profundity | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound |
| Meaning | Coming from deep within one. | |
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| Example | "a profound sigh" | |
| Broader | deep | relatively deep or strong |
| Nouns | profoundness | extremeness of degree |
| Adverbs | profoundly | to a great depth psychologically |
| Meaning | (of sleep) deep and complete. | |
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| Example | "fell into a profound sleep" | |
| Synonyms | heavy, sound, wakeless | |
| Broader | deep | relatively deep or strong |
| Spanish | profundo | |
| Nouns | profoundness | extremeness of degree |
| Meaning | situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed. | |
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| Example | "the profound depths of the sea" | |
| Synonyms | unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded | |
| Broader | deep | Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center |
| Spanish | abisal, abismal | |
| Catalan | abismal, abissal | |
| Nouns | profundity, profoundness | the quality of being physically deep |
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