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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