Text: 1 difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand<a profound observation about good and evil that few listeners fully grasped>Synonymsabstruse, deep, esoteric, reconditeRelated Wordserudite, learned, scholarly; academic, pedantic; complex, complicated, hard; darkling, enigmatic (also enigmatical), inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, uncanny; impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible; ambiguous, cryptic; unanswerable, unknowable; baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzlingNear Antonymseasy, facile, simple, straightforward; comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable; clear, obvious, plainAntonymsshallow 2 extreme in degree, power, or effect<a profound silence fell over the audience after the last note had sounded>— see intense 3 having no exceptions or restrictions<a profound dislike of raw vegetables>— see absolute 2

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