deep

  • (r) to a great depth;far down
    • dived deeply
    • dug deep
    deeply,
  • (a) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
    • a deep breath
    • a deep sigh
    • deep concentration
    • deep emotion
    • a deep trance
    • in a deep sleep
  • (r) to an advanced time
    • deep into the night
    • talked late into the evening
    late,
  • (s) marked by depth of thinking
    • deep thoughts
    • a deep allegory
  • (r) to a great distance
    • penetrated deep into enemy territory
    • went deep into the woods
  • (a) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
    • a deep well
    • a deep dive
    • deep water
    • a deep casserole
    • a deep gash
    • deep massage
    • deep pressure receptors in muscles
    • deep shelves
    • a deep closet
    • surrounded by a deep yard
    • hit the ball to deep center field
    • in deep space
    • waist-deep
  • (s) very distant in time or space
    • deep in the past
    • deep in enemy territory
    • deep in the woods
    • a deep space probe
  • (s) extreme
    • in deep trouble
    • deep happiness
  • (s) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
    • a deep voice
    • a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice
    • a bass clarinet
    bass,
  • (s) strong; intense
    • deep purple
    • a rich red
    rich,
  • (s) relatively thick from top to bottom
    • deep carpets
    • deep snow
  • (s) extending relatively far inward
    • a deep border
  • (s) (of darkness) very intense
    • thick night
    • thick darkness
    • a face in deep shadow
    • deep night
    thick,
  • (s) large in quantity or size
    • deep cuts in the budget
  • (s) with head or back bent low
    • a deep bow
  • (s) of an obscure nature
    • the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms
    • a deep dark secret
    • the inscrutable workings of Providence
    • "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson
    • rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
    cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying,
  • (s) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
    • the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
    • a deep metaphysical theory
    • some recondite problem in historiography
    abstruse, recondite,
  • (s) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
    • deep political machinations
    • a deep plot

Nouns

  • (n) the central and most intense or profound part
    • in the deep of night
    • in the deep of winter
  • (n) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor oceanic abyss, trench,
  • (n) literary term for an ocean
    • denizens of the deep

Synonyms

deeply oceanic abyss trench late bass rich thick cryptic cryptical inscrutable mysterious mystifying abstruse recondite

Antonyms

shallow

See also

unfathomable

Words of close approximity

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