Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
Very deep; very serious.
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough.
a profound investigation
The deep; the sea; the ocean.
God, in the fathomlesse profound / Hath all his choice Commanders drown'd.
An abyss.
[…]if some other place, / From your dominion won, th' Ethereal King / Possesses lately, thither to arrive / travel this profound. Direct my course[…]
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
To dive deeply; to penetrate.
But no man is likely to profound tbe Ocean of that Doctrine
From Middle English profound, profounde, from Anglo-Norman profound, from Old French profont, profonde, from Latin profundus (“deep, profound”), from prō + fundus (“bottom; foundation”).
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