Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a profound manner; deeply; with deep penetration; with deep knowledge or insight; thoroughly; extremely; very.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a profound manner.
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- adverb manner With depth,
meaningfully . - adverb evaluative Very
importantly . - adverb degree
Deeply ;very .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to a great depth psychologically
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Examples
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Dissidents are suppressed in profoundly unfair ways in every country on earth.
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We are not going to stop the Israelis, just as we do not stop the Chinese from suppressing dissidents in profoundly unfair ways.
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Where the authors differ most profoundly is in the overall mood their work creates.
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We are not going to stop the Israelis, just as we do not stop the Chinese from suppressing dissidents in profoundly unfair ways.
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Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?
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One of the rare things that bothered me, but it did so profoundly, is the resolution of the main plot and the ending.
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One of the rare things that bothered me, but it did so profoundly, is the resolution of the main plot and the ending.
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He grew up in profoundly rural America and was graduating from flight school about the time of Pearl Harbor.
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Their rigorous versions of management education differ profoundly from the one that Stewart lampoons.
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Their rigorous versions of management education differ profoundly from the one that Stewart lampoons.
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