Dictionary entry details
• DEEP (noun)
Meaning:
The central and most intense or profound part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Context examples:
in the deep of night / in the deep of winter
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
middle (time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period)
Meaning:
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
oceanic abyss; deep; trench
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
depression; natural depression (a sunken or depressed geological formation)
Instance hyponyms:
Atacama Trench (a depression the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile)
Bougainville Trench (a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands)
Japan Trench (a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet)
Nares Deep (a depression in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean north of Haiti and Puerto Rico)
Meaning:
Literary term for an ocean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Context example:
denizens of the deep
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
• DEEP (adjective)
Meaning:
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Context examples:
a deep breath / a deep sigh / deep concentration / deep emotion / a deep trance / in a deep sleep
Similar:
heavy; profound; sound; wakeless ((of sleep) deep and complete)
profound (coming from deep within one)
Attribute:
depth (extent downward or backward or inward)
Antonym:
shallow (not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply)
Meaning:
Marked by depth of thinking
Context examples:
deep thoughts / a deep allegory
Similar:
profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being)
Meaning:
Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
Context examples:
a deep well / a deep dive / deep water / a deep casserole / a deep gash / deep massage / deep pressure receptors in muscles / deep shelves / a deep closet / surrounded by a deep yard / hit the ball to deep center field / in deep space / waist-deep
Similar:
profound; unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded (situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed)
in depth (having a specified depth)
deep-water (of or carried on in waters of great depth)
bottomless (extremely deep)
abysmal; abyssal; unfathomable (so deep as to be unmeasurable)
walk-in ((of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter)
Also:
unfathomable (of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured)
Attribute:
depth (extent downward or backward or inward)
Antonym:
shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)
Meaning:
Very distant in time or space
Context examples:
deep in the past / deep in enemy territory / deep in the woods / a deep space probe
Similar:
distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)
Meaning:
Extreme
Context examples:
in deep trouble / deep happiness
Similar:
intense (in an extreme degree)
Meaning:
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Synonyms:
bass; deep
Context examples:
a deep voice / a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice / a bass clarinet
Similar:
low; low-pitched (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)
Meaning:
Strong; intense
Synonyms:
rich; deep
Context examples:
deep purple / a rich red
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having striking color)
Meaning:
Relatively thick from top to bottom
Context examples:
deep carpets / deep snow
Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Meaning:
Extending relatively far inward
Context example:
a deep border
Similar:
broad; wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)
Meaning:
(of darkness) very intense
Synonyms:
thick; deep
Context examples:
thick night / thick darkness / a face in deep shadow / deep night
Similar:
intense (in an extreme degree)
Meaning:
Large in quantity or size
Context example:
deep cuts in the budget
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Meaning:
With head or back bent low
Context example:
a deep bow
Similar:
low (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension)
Meaning:
Of an obscure nature
Synonyms:
mystifying; mysterious; inscrutable; cryptical; cryptic; deep
Context examples:
the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms / a deep dark secret / the inscrutable workings of Providence / in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life / rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
Similar:
incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)
Meaning:
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Synonyms:
abstruse; recondite; deep
Context examples:
the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them / a deep metaphysical theory / some recondite problem in historiography
Similar:
esoteric (confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)
Meaning:
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
Context examples:
deep political machinations / a deep plot
Similar:
artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)
• DEEP (adverb)
Meaning:
To a great depth
Synonyms:
deep; deeply
Context examples:
dived deeply / dug deep
Meaning:
To an advanced time
Synonyms:
deep; late
Context examples:
deep into the night / talked late into the evening
Meaning:
To far into space
Context examples:
penetrated deep into enemy territory / went deep into the woods
Pertainym:
deep (very distant in time or space)
