Profound - Definition

adj 1: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; "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, profound]
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, profound, 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:
profound, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded]