Meaning

(manner) With depth, meaningfully..

Definitions by Sense

1. (manner) With depth, meaningfully.
2. (evaluative) Very importantly.
3. (degree) Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.

Example Sentences

He thought and wrote profoundly.

More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.

From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.

Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

In 1997, Turkheimer, perhaps the preëminent behavior geneticist of his generation, published a short political meditation called “The Search for a Psychometric Left,” in which he called upon his fellow-liberals to accept that they had nothing to fear from genes. He proposed that “a psychometric left would recognize that human ability, individual differences in human ability, measures of human ability, and genetic influences on human ability are all real but profoundly complex, too complex for the imposition of biogenetic or political schemata.)

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday if the Supreme Court does not resolve the issue of presidential immunity “quickly and decisively,” it will have a “profoundly negative impact” on the country.

Word Forms

• more profoundly
• most profoundly

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Use profoundly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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