Meaning & Definition of Profound in English

1. Showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

• "The differences are profound"

• "A profound insight"

• "A profound book"

• "A profound mind"

• "Profound contempt"

• "Profound regret"

2. Of the greatest intensity

• Complete

• "A profound silence"

• "A state of profound shock"

3. Far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something

• "The fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred"

• "The book underwent fundamental changes"

• "Committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance"

• "Profound social changes"

4. Coming from deep within one

• "A profound sigh"

5. (of sleep) deep and complete

• "A heavy sleep"

• "Fell into a profound sleep"

• "A sound sleeper"

• "Deep wakeless sleep"

6. Situated at or extending to great depth

• Too deep to have been sounded or plumbed

• "The profound depths of the sea"

• "The dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-thomas gray

• "Unplumbed depths of the sea"

• "Remote and unsounded caverns"