profound (
http://definr.com/profound)
adj 1: showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from
the depths of your being; "the differences are
profound"; "a profound insight"; "a profound book"; "a
profound mind"; "profound contempt"; "profound regret"
[ant:
superficial]
2: of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence";
"a state of profound shock"
3: far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the
nature of something; "the fundamental revolution in human
values that has occurred"; "the book underwent fundamental
changes"; "committed the fundamental error of confusing
spending with extravagance"; "profound social changes"
[syn:
fundamental]
4: coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"
5: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a
profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep"
[syn:
heavy,
sound,
wakeless]
6: situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have
been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea";
"the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray;
"unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded
caverns" [syn:
unfathomed,
unplumbed,
unsounded]