profound
/pɹəˈfaʊnd/ adjective C1- Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
- Very deep; very serious.
- Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough. · a profound investigation· a profound scholar
- Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading.
- Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive.
Comparative profounder · Superlative profoundest
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During these hours of profound meditation, which to him had seemed only minutes, he had formed a fearful resolution, and bound himself to its fulfilment by a solemn oath.
The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.
Faria replied to this sarcasm with a glance of profound contempt.
After continuing some time in profound meditation, the young man suddenly exclaimed, “I have found what you were in search of!”
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