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Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton.

In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

prehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

eric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Beaus adept in everything profound. Cowper.

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill…

Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton.

The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. [Obs.] Producing in us reverence and awfulness. Jer. Taylor.

To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. Thackeray.

taining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

e begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. When the drum beat at dead of night. Campbell.

Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. Speculations high or deep. Milton. A question deep almost as the mystery of life. De Quincey. O Lord, . . . thy thought are very deep. Ps. xcii. 5.…