profound

adj.深刻的;adj.强烈的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
profound (adjective)
1.
a) having intellectual depth and insight
b) difficult to or understand - fathom
2.
a) extending far below the surface
b) coming from, reaching to, or situated at a depth - deep-seated a profound sigh
3.
a) characterized by intensity of feeling or quality
b) all encompassing - complete profound sleep profound deafness
profound (noun)
archaic something that is very deep , specifically the of the sea - depths
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
profound (adjective)
1.
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
SYNONYMS:
abstruse, arcane, deep, esoteric, hermetic ( hermetical), recondite
RELATED WORDS:
erudite, learned, scholarly; academic ( academical), pedantic; complex, complicated, hard; darkling, enigmatic ( enigmatical), inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, uncanny; impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible; ambiguous, cryptic; unanswerable, unknowable; baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, disorienting, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
NEAR ANTONYMS:
easy, facile, simple, straightforward; comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable; apparent, clear, clear-cut, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, transparent
shallow, superficial
profound (adjective)
2.
extreme in degree, power, or effect
SYNONYMS:
acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intensive, keen, profound, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent
RELATED WORDS:
accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened; emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified; stressed; exhaustive, thorough; harsh, rigorous, severe
NEAR ANTONYMS:
feeble, weak; shallow, superficial; moderated, qualified; alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down); abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued
light, moderate, soft
profound (adjective)
3.
having no exceptions or restrictions
SYNONYMS:
all-out, arrant, blank, blooming, bodacious, categorical ( categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
RELATED WORDS:
authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable; constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting; extreme, unrestricted; confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate; extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific
NEAR ANTONYMS:
doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain
profound (adjective)
4.
extending far downward
SYNONYMS:
abysmal, bottomless, profound
RELATED WORDS:
abyssal, unfathomable; boundless, endless, immeasurable, inestimable, infinite, limitless, measureless, unlimited, vast
NEAR ANTONYMS:
depthless, two-dimensional; even, flat, flush, horizontal, level, plane, smooth; confined, finite, limited, measured, restricted
shallow, shoal, skin-deep, superficial, surface
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