Sample Sentences for
profound
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profound as in:  profound idea

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    She is a profound thinker.
    profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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    It's a profound book
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    She has a profound mind.
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    Or face the profoundest consequences.†  (source)
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    When I pointed this out to Father, he was as delighted as though I had made a profound discovery.  (source)
    profound = important (far-reaching in intellect or consequence)
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    At every step he was incited to do some strange, wild, wicked thing or other, with a sense that it would be at once involuntary and intentional, in spite of himself, yet growing out of a profounder self than that which opposed the impulse.  (source)
    profounder = deeper
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    You're the darling of the royalists, my unprofound fellow, and you'd force the average citizen to live in a nation where privacy is obsolete, free thought suspended by censorship, the rich get richer, and for the poorest among us the beginnings of potential life itself may well have to be abandoned in order to survive.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprofound means not and reverses the meaning of profound. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The profoundness of our lips touching and our tongues pressing and my hand cupping her perfect white cheek barred any thoughts of right or wrong or any memory of why I had followed her there in the first place.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Sounds always affected me profoundly and the principal's voice was one of my favorites.  (source)
    profoundly = in a deep or far-reaching manner
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    Especially to state something as nonprofound as that.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonprofound means not and reverses the meaning of profound. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Since then, I might have declared that I was "not myself" or "out of my mind" or "beside myself," but the profoundest characteristic of my state of mind was not, in the end, what I did, but how palpably it felt like the real me.†  (source)
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    This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.  (source)
    profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
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    but what followed was something like this: Condition in Middle Ages of, Habits in the Fiji Islands of, Worshipped as goddesses by, Weaker in moral sense than, Idealism of, Greater conscientiousness of, South Sea Islanders, age of puberty among, Attractiveness of, Offered as sacrifice to, Small size of brain of, Profounder sub-consciousness of, Less hair on the body of, Mental, moral and physical inferiority of, Love of children of, Greater length of life of, Weaker muscles of, Strength of affections of, Vanity of, Higher education of, Shakespeare's opinion of, Lord Birkenhead's opinion of, Dean Inge's opinion of, La Bruyere's opinion of, Dr Johnson's opinion of, Mr Oscar Browning's opinion†  (source)
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profound as in:  profound sadness

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    It was a profound spiritual experience that changed her life.
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    There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep.  (source)
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    There was silence so profound, Hannah wondered if she had gone deaf.  (source)
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    They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.  (source)
    profound = intense
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    Liam didn't looked stressed so much as profoundly sad.  (source)
    profoundly = with greatest intensity or emotional depth
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    Her heart melted away in tears; her profoundest spirit sent forth a moaning voice, low, gentle, but inexpressibly sad.  (source)
    profoundest = most emotionally deep (or most intense)
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    Since I was a little kid, I've had this profound connection with and love for deep, dark, unmolested woods.  (source)
    profound = of greatest intensity or emotional depth
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    [H]is life is so profoundly in transaction with nature that there is no place for abstraction or esthetics or a "nature philosophy" which can be separated from the rest of his life.  (source)
    profoundly = intensely
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    Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps, which only made the darkness more profound.  (source)
    profound = intense
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    Two weeks had gone by since the night of the storm, the night of Mae Tuck's escape. And Mae had not been found. There was no trace of her at all, or of Tuck or Miles or Jesse. Winnie was profoundly grateful for that.  (source)
    profoundly = very
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    Once again in his tormenter's clutches, Louie descended back into a state of profound stress.  (source)
    profound = intense
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    I am profoundly stirred!  (source)
    profoundly = intensely
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    Then slowly they saw the forms of the encircling mountains mirrored in a profound blue,  (source)
    profound = of greatest intensity
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