All 6 Uses of
profound
in
The Great Gatsby
- "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. "He reads deep books with long words in them."
p. 13.1 *profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
- I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.
p. 47.3profound = intense
- It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
p. 95.4
- He was profoundly affected by the fact that Tom was there.
p. 101.8profoundly = intensely
- ...and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
p. 124.4 *profound = great in intensity
- They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
p. 150.8profoundly = with intensity or emotional depth
Definitions:
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(1)
(profound as in: profound idea) deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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(2)
(profound as in: profound sadness) of greatest intensity or emotional depth