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1
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
- a profound observation about good and evil that few listeners fully grasped
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- academic
- (also academical),
- pedantic
- darkling,
- enigmatic
- (also enigmatical),
- inscrutable,
- mysterious,
- mystic,
- mystical,
- orphic,
- uncanny
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2
extreme in degree, power, or effect
- a profound silence fell over the audience after the last note had sounded
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3
having no exceptions or restrictions
- a profound dislike of frauds and phonies
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- absolute,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- blank,
- blooming
- [chiefly British],
- bodacious
- [Southern & Midland],
- categorical
- (also categoric),
- clean,
- complete,
- consummate,
- cotton-picking,
- crashing,
- damn,
- damned,
- dead,
- deadly,
- definite,
- downright,
- dreadful,
- fair,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- plumb,
- pure,
- rank,
- regular,
- sheer,
- simple,
- stark,
- stone,
- straight-out,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unconditional,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- utter,
- very
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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
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The first known use of profound was in the 14th century
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