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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profound \Pro*found"\, v. t. To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profound \Pro*found"\, v. i. To dive deeply; to penetrate. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profound \Pro*found"\, a. [F. profond, L. profundus pro before forward + fundus the bottom. See {Found} to establish, {Bottom} lowest part.] 1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. ``A gulf profound.'' --Milton. 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. ``Profound sciatica.'' --Shak. Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. --Milman. 4. Bending low exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! --Duppa. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Profound \Pro*found"\, n. 1. The deep; the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. --Sandys. 2. An abyss. --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: profound adj 1: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being "the differences are profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret" [ant: {superficial}] 2: of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock" 3: far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something "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" [syn: {fundamental}] 4: coming from deep within one "a profound sigh" 5: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: {heavy}, {sound}, {wakeless}] 6: 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" [syn: {unfathomed}, {unplumbed}, {unsounded}]
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