profundify

verb
/pɹəˈfʌndɪfaɪ/

Etymology

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -ify. Post-19th-century uses popularized by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010).

Definitions

  1. 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