Profound [adjective]

Definition of Profound:

deep; not superficial; complete; intellectual, thoughtful

Synonyms of Profound:

● Thorough

● Philosophical

● Deep

● Serious

● Subtle

● Intelligent

● Weighty

● Abstruse

● Difficult

● Discerning

● Enlightened

● Erudite

● Esoteric

● Heavy

● Hermetic

● Informed

● Intellectual

● Knowing

● Knowledgeable

● Learned

● Mysterious

● Occult

● Penetrating

● Recondite

● Reflective

● Sagacious

● Sage

● Scholarly

● Secret

● Shrewd

● Skilled

● Wise

● Orphic

● Acroamatic


Opposite/Antonyms of Profound:

● Moderate

● Mild

● Slight

● Shallow

● Light

● Open

● Unemotional

● Stupid

● Ignorant

● Unimportant

● Unintelligent

● Trivial

● Superficial


Sentence/Example of Profound:

There was profound conviction in the emphasis with which she spoke her warning.

The world-shaking conceptions have always been won in profound experience.

Martin looked at her respectfully but with profound curiosity.

He listened in a stillness of dread which resembled the immobility of profound attention.

The Personage on the hearthrug had been listening with profound attention.

And the confidence he had to make was of a profound psychological order.

After this profound observation the experienced Toodles seemed to reflect.

“Not very,” Mr Verloc managed to falter out, in a profound shudder.

The silence was profound, but shaken now and then by a grumble of distant thunder.

"No one would dare say such a thing," she asserted with profound conviction.