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profound
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adjective
showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
the differences are profound
a profound insight
a profound book
a profound mind
profound contempt
profound regret
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adjective
of the greatest intensity; complete
a profound silence
a state of profound shock
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adjective
(= unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded)
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
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adjective
coming from deep within one
a profound sigh
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adjective
(= fundamental)
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
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adjective
(= heavy, sound, wakeless)
(of sleep) deep and complete
a heavy sleep
fell into a profound sleep
a sound sleeper
deep wakeless sleep
difference
Noun
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The quality of being different.
You need to learn to accept differences in people.
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A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
There are three differences between these two pictures.
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A disagreement or argument.
The people had to settle their differences before they could work together.