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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
  • Characterized by pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
  • Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
  • 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.
  • Very deep; very serious

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Noun:

  • obsolete An abyss.
  • obsolete The deep; the sea; the ocean.

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Verb:

  • obsolete To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
  • obsolete To dive deeply; to penetrate.

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