Profoundness — Meaning, Definition & Synonyms

Related Entry: Profound (adjective)

Profound is a different word from Profoundness. The synonyms below are for profound, not for profoundness.

1. extreme in degree, power, or effect

   "a profound silence fell over the audience after the last note had sounded"

   similar: acute, almighty, blistering, deep, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, exquisite, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, fierce, frightful, furious, ghastly, hard, heavy, heavy-duty, hellacious, intense, intensive, keen, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent
   related: accentuated, aggravated, concentrated, deepened, emphasized, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnified, stressed, exhaustive, thorough, harsh, rigorous, severe
   opposite: light, moderate, soft
   near: feeble, weak, shallow, superficial, moderated, qualified, alleviated, eased, lightened, toned (down), abated, decreased, diminished, lessened, reduced, subdued

2. difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand

   "a profound observation about good and evil that few listeners fully grasped"

   similar: abstruse, arcane, deep, esoteric, hermetic, recondite
   related: erudite, learned, scholarly, academic, pedantic, complex, complicated, hard, darkling, enigmatic, inscrutable, mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, uncanny, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, unintelligible, ambiguous, cryptic, unanswerable, unknowable, baffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, disorienting, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling
   opposite: shallow, superficial
   near: easy, facile, simple, straightforward, comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable, apparent, clear, clear-cut, distinct, evident, lucid, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, transparent

3. having no exceptions or restrictions

   "a profound dislike of frauds and phonies"

   similar: absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming (chiefly British), bodacious (Southern & Midland), categorical, clean, complete, consummate, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
   related: authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable, constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting, extreme, unrestricted, confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate, extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific
   near: doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain

4. extending far downward

   "with eyes wide with disbelief, the explorers made their way through a canyon more profound than any they had ever imagined"

   similar: abysmal, bottomless, deep
   related: abyssal, unfathomable, boundless, endless, immeasurable, inestimable, infinite, limitless, measureless, unlimited, vast
   opposite: shallow, shoal, skin-deep, superficial, surface
   near: depthless, two-dimensional, even, flat, flush, horizontal, level, plane, smooth, confined, finite, limited, measured, restricted