profound
英[pr?'fa?nd]
美[pr?'fa?nd]
- adj. 深厚的；意義深遠的；淵博的
英英釋意
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"