PROFOUNDLY Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

profoundly

adverb

as in deeply

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Recent Examples of profoundly Priced Out in America follows families trapped in the affordability crisis, revealing structural forces that have profoundly and permanently reshaped the US economy. — Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026 To return to it now, all these years later, when its questions feel as urgent as ever, is profoundly moving. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026 And when Wednesday blew up in 2022, Ortega felt profoundly disoriented. — Alice Robb, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026 The incredibly generous support from the Hearthland Foundation will underwrite our directors lab returning to the Sundance Mountain Resort and provide vital artist granting, which is profoundly meaningful. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 In the 15th century, making a sculpture that invited you to view a figure, especially a naked one, from front and back was profoundly strange. — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 On the other hand, the fact that Shakespeare chose to make Shylock a resident of Venice is a telling illustration of the Ghetto’s profoundly international character. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 These are landscapes that remain inaccessible to most travelers, and witnessing them in such an intimate way was profoundly moving. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 What more and more voters are coming to understand is how profoundly they have been betrayed. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026

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Adverb

The sibling who brought this to our attention isn’t comfortable bringing it up directly (our family is deeply non-confrontational and private but loving and connected).

— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
The next governor of Florida will inherit the nation’s second-largest death row population — and with it, a legacy of profound questions about the remorseless and deeply flawed system that put so many people there.

— Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of deeply

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Unlike the High Church Swift, Defoe was a puritan (in many things), and where the former was suspicious of the economic instrumentalization that turned people into commodities, the latter was positively bullish on the market economy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Lawrence also noted that becoming a mom has positively impacted her career.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of positively

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Even if Netanyahu loses, new leadership is unlikely to radically change Israel’s trajectory on issues important to the US.

— Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2026
The citizens’ group noted that to assume billions of dollars in new special education costs, the state also would have to radically change fiscal practices it’s followed since 2017.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of radically

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Much of Modi’s comedy centers on differences between various kinds of Jews, a friction that elicits knowing laughters from his (largely, but not wholly) Jewish audience.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026
The men who promoted the Red Scare would never accept anyone who was half Chinese as a wholly loyal American.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of wholly

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Comparing the administration's fight to protect women and women's spaces from males to rape, is utterly disgusting and actually devalues those atrocities and crimes against actual women.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Humanity has become an Earth-System force in the most utterly literal way—by moving a lot of earth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of utterly

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Although the costuming department appears to have bought out every pinstripe rayon fabric available in a 50-mile radius of the Italian villa where the series is filmed, The Mob is remarkably unsophisticated.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Nonetheless, the ways some young Americans become embedded in violent organizations – and the difficulty of leaving them – overlap remarkably with the child soldier experience.

— Charles Wratto, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of remarkably

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There are absolutely areas that need improvement, but the numbers make for a persuasive story.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
But Glennon’s glad-handing soon gives way to a much blunter critique when my Ear-Candling Tech’s apprentice steps in to say that my team has absolutely had it with me and my excuses.

— Julie Klausner, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026

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