Profound

a.	1.	Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
	2.	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.
	3.	Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep. Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. - Milman.
	4.	Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow. What humble gestures! What profound reverence! - Duppa.
n.	1.	The deep; the sea; the ocean. God in the fathomless profound Hath all this choice commanders drowned. - Sandys.
	2.	An abyss.
v. t.	1.	To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
v. i.	1.	To dive deeply; to penetrate.

Adj.	1.	profound - 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" Antonyms: superficial - being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"
	2.	profound - of the greatest intensity; complete; "a profound silence"; "a state of profound shock"
	3.	profound - 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" Synonyms: fundamental
	4.	profound - coming from deep within one; "a profound sigh"
	5.	profound - (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" Synonyms: wakeless, sound, heavy
	6.	profound - 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" Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded

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