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}]