Synonyms and Antonyms of profound
1
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand - a profound observation about good and evil that few listeners fully grasped
erudite, learned, scholarly
academic (also academical), pedantic
complex, complicated, hard
darkling, enigmatic (also enigmatical), inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, mystical, uncanny
impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible
ambiguous, cryptic
unanswerable, unknowable
baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, disorienting, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
easy, facile, simple, straightforward
comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable
apparent, clear, clear-cut, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, transparent
2
extreme in degree, power, or effect - A profound silence fell over the audience after the last note had sounded.
acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, intense, intensive, keen, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent
accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened
emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified
stressed
exhaustive, thorough
harsh, rigorous, severe
feeble, weak
shallow, superficial
moderated, qualified
alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down)
abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued
3
having no exceptions or restrictions - a profound dislike of frauds and phonies
absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable
constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting
extreme, unrestricted
confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate
extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific
4
extending far downward - With eyes wide with disbelief, the explorers made their way through a canyon more profound than any they had ever imagined.
depthless, two-dimensional
even, flat, flush, horizontal, level, plane, smooth
confined, finite, limited, measured, restricted
