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Meaning of profound

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  profound
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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