PROFOUND
Dictionary entry overview: What does profound mean?
• PROFOUND (adjective)
The adjective PROFOUND has 6 senses:
1. showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being
2. of the greatest intensity; complete
3. far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
4. coming from deep within one
5. (of sleep) deep and complete
6. situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Familiarity information: PROFOUND used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• PROFOUND (adjective)
Meaning:
Showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being
Context examples:
the differences are profound / a profound insight / a profound book / a profound mind / profound contempt / profound regret
Similar:
deep (marked by depth of thinking)
thoughtful (having intellectual depth)
Also:
intense (in an extreme degree)
scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)
Antonym:
superficial (being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually)
Meaning:
Of the greatest intensity; complete
Context examples:
a profound silence / a state of profound shock
Similar:
intense (in an extreme degree)
Meaning:
Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
Synonyms:
fundamental; profound
Context examples:
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
Similar:
important; significant (important in effect or meaning)
Meaning:
Coming from deep within one
Context example:
a profound sigh
Similar:
deep (relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply)
Meaning:
(of sleep) deep and complete
Synonyms:
wakeless; profound; sound; heavy
Context examples:
a heavy sleep / fell into a profound sleep / a sound sleeper / deep wakeless sleep
Similar:
deep (relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply)
Meaning:
Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Synonyms:
unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded; profound
Context examples:
the profound depths of the sea / the dark unfathomed caves of ocean / unplumbed depths of the sea / remote and unsounded caverns
Similar:
deep (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)
