The meaning of Profound

adjective

(of an unpleasant or unwelcome situation or phenomenon) present or experienced to a severe or intense degree.

Usage examples:

An acute housing shortage

noun

Short for acute accent.

adjective

Very enthusiastic or passionate.

Usage examples:

An ardent supporter of the cause of education

adjective

Showing strong feelings; eager

Usage examples:

They were ardent pacifists.

adjective

Having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage.

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An astute businessman

adjective

Quick to see how to use a situation to your advantage

Usage examples:

He was politically astute, and was soon appointed to a number of powerful committees in congress.

adjective

Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.

Usage examples:

She was an extremely clever and studious young woman

adjective

Having or showing a quick intelligence in doing something or in persuading people to do something

Usage examples:

It was certainly a clever ad and got a lot of attention., did you notice how she cleverly avoided a…

adjective

Extending far down from the top or surface.

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A deep gorge

noun

The sea.

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Denizens of the deep

adverb

The part of the field distant from the batsman.

adjective

Strongly felt or believed and very difficult to change or get rid of

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A deep-seated faith in god

adjective

Strongly felt or believed and very difficult to change or get rid of

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A deep-seated faith in god

adjective

Extending far down from the top or surface.

Usage examples:

A deep gorge

noun

The sea.

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Denizens of the deep

noun

The part of the field distant from the batter.

Usage examples:

He was also noted for his magnificent fielding in the deep.

adjective

Having or showing good judgement.

Usage examples:

The brasserie attracts discerning customers

verb

Recognize or find out.

Usage examples:

I can discern no difference between the two policies

adjective

Able to make or usually making careful judgments about the quality of similar things

Usage examples:

Marion is a discerning judge of good design.

adjective

Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction.

Usage examples:

An earnest student

noun

A thing intended or regarded as a sign or promise of what is to come.

Usage examples:

The very deliberateness of their disguise is an earnest of their real aloofness

adjective

Sincere and serious

Usage examples:

She made an earnest attempt to convert me to her point of view., work on the building began, in ear…

adjective

Having or showing great knowledge or learning.

Usage examples:

Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion

adjective

Having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people

Usage examples:

He's the author of an erudite book on scottish history.

adjective

Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great.

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Extreme cold

noun

Either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible.

Usage examples:

We represented opposite extremes of college society—he a member of the old guard, i one of the radi…

adjective

Likely to influence many people or things

Usage examples:

The effects of the riots will be far-reaching.

adjective

Having or displaying a passionate intensity.

Usage examples:

A fervent supporter of the revolution

adjective

Showing strong and sincere feelings or beliefs

Usage examples:

She was a fervent supporter of art and culture., i fervently hope he’s right.

adjective

Of an extent, amount, or intensity considerably above average.

Usage examples:

The article was of great interest

noun

An important or distinguished person.

Usage examples:

The beatles, bob dylan, all the greats

adverb

Another term for literae humaniores.

adjective

(of a feeling or its expression) deeply and strongly felt; sincere.

Usage examples:

Our heartfelt thanks

adjective

Strongly felt and sincere

Usage examples:

He hugged her awkwardly as he said goodbye, but his good wishes were heartfelt.

preposition

Expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else.

Usage examples:

I'm living in london

adverb

Expressing movement with the result that someone or something becomes enclosed or surrounded by something else.

Usage examples:

Come in

adjective

Present at one's home or office.

Usage examples:

We knocked at the door but there was no one in

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

Usage examples:

Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

Usage examples:

He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

adjective

Having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level.

Usage examples:

Anna is intelligent and hard-working

adjective

Showing intelligence, or the ability to understand and learn well

Usage examples:

A highly intelligent woman, she writes intelligently about the life of mary baker eddy.

adjective

Able to learn and understand things quickly and easily

Usage examples:

A lot of thoroughly intelligent, sensible people have fallen for the salesman's charm., a highly in…

adjective

Of extreme force, degree, or strength.

Usage examples:

The job demands intense concentration

adjective

Extreme

Usage examples:

Intense heat/cold, a look of intense joy, an intense 13-week course, he was young and intense, and …

adjective

Having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

A keen gardener

verb

Wail in grief for a dead person.

Usage examples:

The body of johnny was taken by his own people who keened over him

noun

An irish funeral song accompanied by wailing in lamentation for the dead.

adjective

Intelligent and well informed.

Usage examples:

She is very knowledgeable about livestock and pedigrees

adjective

Knowing a lot

Usage examples:

He's very knowledgeable about german literature.

adjective

(of a person) having acquired much knowledge through study.

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A learned, generous, and notoriously absent-minded man

verb

Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

Usage examples:

They'd started learning french

adjective

Having or showing much knowledge

Usage examples:

A learned scholar

adjective

Extremely strong or intense; overwhelming.

Usage examples:

A feeling of overpowering sadness

verb

Defeat or overcome with superior strength.

Usage examples:

He overpowered the two men and frogmarched them to the police station

adjective

Too strong to be able to continue or resist

Usage examples:

Firefighters were driven back by the overpowering heat of the flames., there's an overpowering smel…

adjective

Very great in amount.

Usage examples:

His party won overwhelming support

verb

Bury or drown beneath a huge mass of something, especially water.

Usage examples:

Floodwaters overwhelmed hundreds of houses

adjective

Able to make a way through or into something.

Usage examples:

The problem of penetrating damp

verb

Go into or through (something), especially with force or effort.

Usage examples:

The shrapnel had penetrated his head

adjective

Having or showing sensitive insight.

Usage examples:

An extraordinarily perceptive account of their relationship

adjective

Able to notice and understand things that many other people do not notice

Usage examples:

Her books are full of perceptive insights.

adjective

Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd.

Usage examples:

They were sagacious enough to avoid any outright confrontation

adjective

Having or showing understanding and the ability to make good judgments

Usage examples:

A sagacious person/comment/choice

noun

An aromatic plant whose greyish-green leaves are used as a culinary herb, native to southern europe and the mediterranean.

Usage examples:

Other culinary herbs, like sage, rosemary and thyme, are native to mediterranean regions where the …

adjective

Profoundly wise.

Usage examples:

They nodded in agreement with these sage remarks

adjective

Wise, esp. as a result of long experience

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Sage advice

adjective

Involving or relating to serious academic study.

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Scholarly journals

adjective

Free from pretence or deceit; proceeding from genuine feelings.

Usage examples:

They offer their sincere thanks to paul

adjective

(esp. of feelings, beliefs, opinions, or intentions) honest; not false or invented

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Sincere modesty/belief/statement, more than sincere words of support, we need action., she spoke wi…

adjective

Absorbed in or involving thought.

Usage examples:

Brows drawn together in thoughtful consideration

adjective

Tending to think seriously about things

Usage examples:

You’re looking very thoughtful – what’s on your mind?, "oh, how thoughtful of you," dina said, open…

adjective

Showing or characterized by complete sincerity and commitment.

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You have my wholehearted support

adjective

Completely enthusiastic

Usage examples:

I’d like to thank all of you for your wholehearted support of this event.

adjective

Having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgement.

Usage examples:

She seems kind and wise

noun

The manner or extent of something.

Usage examples:

He did it this wise

suffix

Forming adjectives and adverbs of manner or respect such as clockwise, otherwise.