adjective
showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
Examples
- the differences are profound
- a profound insight
- a profound book
- a profound mind
- profound contempt
- profound regret
adjective
of the greatest intensity
Examples
- complete
- a profound silence
- a state of profound shock
adjective
far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
Synonyms
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
adjective
coming from deep within one
Examples
- a profound sigh
adjective
(of sleep) deep and complete
Synonyms
Examples
- a heavy sleep
- fell into a profound sleep
- a sound sleeper
- deep wakeless sleep
adjective
situated at or extending to great depth
Synonyms
Examples
- 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