profundify
verb/pɹəˈfʌndɪfaɪ/
Etymology
Latin profundus (“profound”) + -ify. Post-19th-century uses popularized by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010).
Definitions
To make profound
To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
- But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?
- […] Deutscher's technique throughout his verbose trilogy is to go back and forth in time to profundify a given phenomenon.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for profundify. 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