meaning of profound

1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
2.
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.
3.
Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
4.
Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
5.
The deep; the sea; the ocean.
6.
An abyss.
7.
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
8.
To dive deeply; to penetrate.
9.
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"


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