profoundly

adv
/pɹəˈfaʊndli/

Etymology

From Middle English profoundly, profoundely, equivalent to profound + -ly.

  1. inherited from profoundly

Definitions

  1. With depth, meaningfully.

    • He thought and wrote profoundly.
  2. Very importantly.

    • More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
  3. Deeply

    Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.

    • From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
    • Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.
    • In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA