Profound
Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
The deep; the sea; the ocean.
An abyss.
To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
To dive deeply; to penetrate.
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Profound Quotations
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
Sigmund Freud
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
Bill Gates
I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
Barack Obama
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Albert Camus
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.
Johnny Depp
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
Richard Bach
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
Profound Translations
profound in Afrikaans is diep
profound in Danish is dyb
profound in Dutch is diep
profound in French is profond
profound in Latin is profundus
profound in Norwegian is dyp
profound in Portuguese is profundo
profound in Spanish is profundo
profound in Swedish is djupsinnig, djup
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