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Deep

adjective
(compar. deeper; superl. deepest)
1.
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply.  "A deep sigh" , "Deep concentration" , "Deep emotion" , "A deep trance" , "In a deep sleep"  Antonym: shallow.
2.
Marked by depth of thinking.  "A deep allegory"
3.
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 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"  Antonym: shallow.
4.
Very distant in time or space.  "Deep in enemy territory" , "Deep in the woods" , "A deep space probe"
5.
Extreme.  "Deep happiness"
6.
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.  Synonym: bass.  "A bass voice is lower than a baritone voice" , "A bass clarinet"
7.
Strong; intense.  Synonym: rich.  "A rich red"
8.
Relatively thick from top to bottom.  "Deep snow"
9.
Extending relatively far inward.
10.
(of darkness) very intense.  Synonym: thick.  "Thick darkness" , "A face in deep shadow" , "Deep night"
11.
Large in quantity or size.
12.
With head or back bent low.
13.
Of an obscure nature.  Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.  "A deep dark secret" , "The inscrutable workings of Providence" , "In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" , "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
14.
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.  Synonyms: abstruse, recondite.  "A deep metaphysical theory" , "Some recondite problem in historiography"
15.
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy.  "A deep plot"
adverb
1.
To a great depth;far down.  Synonym: deeply.  "Dug deep"
2.
To an advanced time.  Synonym: late.  "Talked late into the evening"
3.
To a great distance.  "Went deep into the woods"
noun
1.
The central and most intense or profound part.  "In the deep of winter"
2.
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.  Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench.
3.
Literary term for an ocean.



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"Deep" Quotes from Famous Books



... and its little sister isle of Principe, lie right on the Equator in the Gulf of Guinea, about two hundred miles from the African mainland. A warm, lazy sea, the sea of the doldrums, sapphire or turquoise, or, in deep shaded pools, a radiant green, joyfully foams itself away against these fairy lands of tossing palm, dense vegetation, rushing cascades, and purple, precipitous peaks. A soil of volcanic origin is covered ...
— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp

... their weight in gold, from good men and true, writers and critics, who thank me for a book which fulfils its aim and artistic purpose, while on the other hand there are some from people who find fault with my book for not doing what I never even attempted to do. Here is one that has given me deep and unmitigated pain; it is from an old friend, who, I am told, is aggrieved because he thinks that I have put him into my book, in the form of an unpleasant character. The worst of it is that there ...
— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson

... point they tried a ruse which is no longer new. As they came up in a solid line two deep they shouted out: "Don't fire; we are ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various

... called by some critics the finest work of this master. The lady was the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a lovely woman, and some suppose that she was very dear to Leonardo. He worked upon it for four years, and still thought it unfinished: the face has a deep, thoughtful expression—the eyelids are a little weary, perhaps, and through it all there is a suggestion of something not quite understood—a mystery: the hands are graceful and of perfect form, and the rocky background gives an unusual fascination ...
— A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Painting • Clara Erskine Clement

... wrestlin', dog-fightin', rabbit-runnin', and drinkin', till at last, as if 'twere a hepitaph on a gravestone, they damned him across th' moors wi', "an' then he went and 'listed for a soldier," an' they'd all fetch a deep breath, and throw up their ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling


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