profundicate
verb/pɹəˈfʌndɪˌkeɪt/
Etymology
Latin profundus (“profound”) + -icate. Apparently coined by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010) in When in Doubt, Mumble: A Bureaucrat's Handbook, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972, →OCLC.
Definitions
To make profound
To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
- Profundify or profundicate the speech. Use Roget's Thesaurus to make simple ideas seem profound.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for profundicate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA