All 19 Uses
profound
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- with profound respect
Chpt 17 *profound = of great intensity
- what profound conclusions were they drawing?
Chpt 25 *profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
- I was sore, and into my being had come a profound craving for tranquillity, for peace and quiet, a state I felt I could never achieve.†
Chpt Prol.
- Above a spacious fireplace an oil portrait of the Founder looked down at me remotely, benign, sad, and in that hot instant, profoundly disillusioned.†
Chpt 4
- There was no applause, only the appreciation of a profound silence.†
Chpt 5
- I listened to his voice fall to a whisper; his hands were outspread as though he were leading an orchestra into a profound and final diminuendo.†
Chpt 5
- Then he'd clear his throat and give a deeply intoned order, as though each syllable were pregnant with nuances of profoundly important meaning.†
Chpt 8
- You just be patient," said the voice, hollow with profound detachment.†
Chpt 11
- With a profound sigh he'd drop his head in shame.†
Chpt 13
- Where would I hide it, I wondered, looking with profound distaste at the iron kinks, the dull red of a piece of grinning lip.†
Chpt 15
- The silence was profound.†
Chpt 16
- Oh, it's nothing that profound," she said.†
Chpt 19
- "My God," I laughed, "I thought that was the beat of profound ideas."†
Chpt 19
- They regarded me silently, Brother Jack with a smile that went no deeper than his lips, his head cocked to one side, studying me with his penetrating eyes; the others blank-faced, looking out of eyes that were meant to reveal nothing and to stir profound uncertainty.†
Chpt 22
- And of your profound knowledge of Negroes?†
Chpt 22
- And we are determined that his death shall be the beginning of profound and lasting changes.†
Chpt 23
- Certainly something was working on me, and profoundly.†
Chpt 23
- I had to hold on ...and then I had an idea that shook me profoundly: You don't have to worry about the people.†
Chpt 23
- I felt profoundly sad, as though winter had fallen during the hour.†
Chpt 24
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)