PROFOUNDLY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a great depth psychologically or emotionally

Example:

she loved him intensely

Synonyms:

deeply; intensely; profoundly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

profound (coming from deep within one)

Credits

Context examples:

And he passed into their igloo and ate profoundly, and after that slept for twenty running hours.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

People who are profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing can get help from them.

(Cochlear Implants, NIH)

It was a story that profoundly interested Silver; and Ben Gunn, the half-idiot maroon, was the hero from beginning to end.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But it is profoundly true.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was hasty, but good-humoured; vain (she could not help it, when every glance in the glass showed her such a flush of loveliness), but not affected; liberal-handed; innocent of the pride of wealth; ingenuous; sufficiently intelligent; gay, lively, and unthinking: she was very charming, in short, even to a cool observer of her own sex like me; but she was not profoundly interesting or thoroughly impressive.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Poetry, like music, stirred him profoundly, and, though he did not know it, he was preparing his mind for the heavier work that was to come.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour; and when, having brought her ironing-table to the nursery hearth, she allowed us to sit about it, and while she got up Mrs. Reed's lace frills, and crimped her nightcap borders, fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads; or (as at a later period I discovered) from the pages of Pamela, and Henry, Earl of Moreland.