Definition of Profound

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Profound

Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.

Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.

Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.

The deep; the sea; the ocean.

An abyss.

To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.

To dive deeply; to penetrate.

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Profound Quotations

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Albert Schweitzer

Profound Translations

profound in Afrikaans is diep
profound in Danish is dyb
profound in Dutch is diep
profound in French is profond
profound in Latin is profundus
profound in Norwegian is dyp
profound in Portuguese is profundo
profound in Spanish is profundo
profound in Swedish is djupsinnig, djup

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