DEEPLY Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

deeply

adverb

Definition of deeply

as in profoundly

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Recent Examples of deeply There’s just been very clear views in the past as to what a banker should look like, how a banker should talk, how a banker should act, and that’s pretty deeply embedded in the finance world. — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 There’s a skate park for grommets, and for those who’ve been beat up in the waves, the option to call for a deeply therapeutic in-villa Balinese massage. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026 Greenberg went on to convert the six-bedroom, eight-bath property into a deeply personal sanctuary. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026 Mojang already has an exceptional game development team that knows Minecraft and its players deeply. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 Bryant aspires to become a doctor for a deeply personal reason. — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 On set, Creed-Miles was also falling deeply in love—with storytelling—while also keenly being aware of the high stakes of adapting a beloved Austen classic. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026 Israel’s war in Gaza has been deeply divisive in Australia, which has experienced a surge in both antisemitism and Islamophobia since the conflict began. — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is deeply divisive. — Cara Anna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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Without intervention, their trajectory leads to a profoundly medicalized adulthood.

— Babak J. Orandi, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
Winner of the Best Documentary prize at Cannes, filmmaker and actress Pegah Ahangarani turns her own family archive into a profoundly personal chronicle of Iran’s long struggle for freedom.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of profoundly

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As for why the driver has not been publicly identified, Barnes said police have positively identified him.

— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
That in-between space might hold the real reason many culture change initiatives never reach the people they are intended to positively affect.

— Gwen Mdinaradze, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of positively

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There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Buck and Aikman made the leap from Fox in 2022, and while Bristol was nimble in hashing out a new deal with the lead mic, the color analyst’s contract is (obviously) a wholly separate issue.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of wholly

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Adding power without new wind farms One of the more interesting possibilities is that high-altitude turbines could eventually be added to existing wind farms rather than requiring entirely new sites.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
The first attempt to start Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia ended in confusion as cars crawled around the Sepang track at slow speeds or stopped entirely as drivers and teams tried to restart their systems.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of entirely

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Throughout, the thoroughly modern bathrooms have anti-fog mirrors and fluffy robes.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
My sympathies are entirely with Prince William, who's a thoroughly honorable, decent young man who's just had it with his brother and wants nothing to do with him.

— Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of thoroughly

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There is a lot of debate around in-person, hybrid and fully remote work.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Omelchenko appreciates the study authors’ ability to translate math to real life but notes that fully evaluating the possibilities of new stitches by using torus diagrams would be impractically expensive to compute.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of fully

Adverb

Having absolutely no chance of playing past the 162 and getting to plan your offseason appropriately.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But neither source absolutely predicts whether 2026 will be a record-warm year, the spokesperson said, citing NOAA physical scientist Russell Vose.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of absolutely

Adverb

One major American political party – the Democrats – is wrestling with a large insurgency of young Socialists who want to radically re-order the economic structure of our nation.

— Doug Wojcieszak, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Aggregate data can obscure radically different labor market realities, and monetary policy calibrated only to the aggregate can miss the productive capacity sitting beneath it.

— Katica Roy, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

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