Profoundly

Definition: Profoundly

Profoundly

Adverb

1. To a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply".

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Date "profoundly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Profoundly

Crosswords: Profoundly

I am profoundly and irreversibly screwed up. (Runaway Bride; writing credit: Josann McGibbon; Sara Parriott)

Then this puzzle will make you profoundly unhappy. (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana)

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Books

• Breaking through the barrier : puppet play with the profoundly handicapped (reference)

• Curriculum Design for the Severely and Profoundly Handicapped (reference)

• Educating the Severely and Profoundly Retarded (reference)

• Effective Educational and Behavioral Programming for Severely and Profoundly Handicapped Students: A Manual for Teachers and Aides (reference)

• Music for Living: Enriching the Lives of Profoundly Mentally Handicapped People (reference)

  (more book examples)

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He stood profoundly still. Credit: Library of Congress.

For the Negro, intelligent guides to family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. Martin Luther King, Jr. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Turkey and Persia are both profoundly alarmed and disturbed at the claims which are being made upon them and at the pressure being exerted by the Moscow Government. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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There is something profoundly disturbing about watching an eye that is watching you, particularly when the eye that is watching you is almost the same size as your eye, and the thing that it is watching you out of is a lizard.

A thing which made him muse profoundly, and almost reflect, these two joyous sounds.

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Health

People with US1 are profoundly deaf from birth and have severe balance problems. (references)

These findings from the NINDS perinatal study have profoundly altered medical theories about cerebral palsy and have spurred today's researchers to explore alternative causes. (references)

For example, the performance of some severely to profoundly hearing-impaired adults using hearing aids is poorer than that of more severely hearing-impaired individuals using cochlear implants with advanced speech-processing strategies. (references)

Children

Russia

Being a child with disabilities still is a serious social stigma in the country, an attitude that profoundly influences how institutionalized children are treated. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Within several years, renewed contact with the West profoundly altered Japanese society. (references)

Taiwan

The gradual opening of Taiwan's market has profoundly affected the operations of the existing domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers. (references)

Political Economy

Colombia

Drug trafficking and related corruption profoundly affect much of Colombia's political and economic environment. (references)

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Expression using "profoundly": profoundly deaf. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏عمق (deepen, depth, heighten, profoundness, profundity, spit). (various references)

Chinese 

深奧 (profound), 深刻地 (Acutely, trenchantly). (various references)

Czech

hluboce (deeply). (various references)

Danish

ved stuetemperatur kan denne forandring af strukturen vaere permanent;og man siger saa,at staalet er blevet kolddeformeret (all plastic deformation leads to a breakdown and distortion of the grains, physical and chemical properties, which profoundly modifies the crystal structure of the steel and hence its mechanical), svaert tunghoer (profoundly deaf, severely deaf). (various references)

Dutch

ernstige slechthorendheid (profoundly deaf, severely deaf), ernstige gehoorstoornis (profoundly deaf, severely deaf), door iedere plastische vervorming ontstaat een afbraak of vervorming van de korrels die de kristalstructuur van het staal sterk beïnvloedt en als gevolg daarvan de mechanische,fysische en chemische eigenschappen (all plastic deformation leads to a breakdown and distortion of the grains, physical and chemical properties, which profoundly modifies the crystal structure of the steel and hence its mechanical). (various references)

French

profondément. (various references)

German

tief (a long way, abyssal, acutely, cavernously, deep, deeply, depression, dire, grave, hearty, heavily, heavy, intense, keen, keenly, low, low-pitched, profound, sound, soundly, utter, violent), tiefe (abyss, chasm, deepness, depth, depths, direness, gravity, gulf, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, lowness, precipice, profoundness, profundity). (various references)

Greek 

κατά βάθοσ, βαθέωσ (deeply), εμβριθώσ. (various references)

Hungarian

mélységesen (dearly, deeply). (various references)

Indonesian

menyayat (slash into, slice, touch profoundly). (various references)

Italian

profondamente (deeply, sound). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

すれ違う (a lot, bluntly, consecutively, heartbreakingly, heavily, making rude entrance, pass with no objection, ragged, slender, slim, throbbing pain, throughout, to disagree, to miss each other, to pass by one another, torn), 倩 (at length, attentively, carefully, deeply). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ずっしり (heavily), つらつら (at length, attentively, carefully, deeply), せ�" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard). (various references)

Korean 

중후하게. (various references)

Pig Latin

ofoundlypray

Portuguese

profundamente (deep, deeply, heavily, home, low, well). (various references)

Romanian

profund (abstruse, deep, deeply, home-felt, keen, profound, rootedly, sound, thick, thorough, thoughtful), deosebit (apart, choice, different, differently, dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverse, especial, excellent, extra, in a class by itself, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, remarkable, separate, singular, special, specific, strange, sundry, uncommon, unlike, unusual, variant, varied). (various references)

Russian 

глубоко (deeply, in depth, inly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

duboko (deep, deeply). (various references)

Spanish

profundamente (deep, deeply, heavily, low, sound). (various references)

Swedish

djupt (deep, deeply, low). (various references)

Ukrainian

серйозно (capitally, deeply, gravely, in earnest, seriously), глибоко (deep, deeply). (various references)

abscondite. (various references)

deoplic. (various references)

Misspellings

"Profoundly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: progoundly. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: profound.

-3 letters: duopoly, foundry, odorful, proudly, roundly.

-4 letters: dolour, dourly, droopy, floury, fondly, poorly, unfold, unroof, upfold, uropod, youpon.

-5 letters: dolor, donor, dooly, drool, droop, flood, floor, flour, fluor, fondu, fordo, found, frond, loony, loopy, loury, odour, orlop, poofy, porno, porny, pound, poyou, proof, proud, pylon, rondo, round, roupy, updry, yourn, yupon.