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Definitions for: Deep
[n] literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"
[n] a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
[n] the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
[adv] to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
[adv] to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods";
[adv] to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
[adj] exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
[adj] strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"
[adj] very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
[adj] having great spatial extension or penetration; downward ("a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"); or inward from an outer surface ("a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"); or backward ("deep shelves"; "a deep closet"); or laterally ("surrounded by a deep yard"); or outward from a center ((sports) "hit the ball to deep center field"); sometimes used in combination; "waist-deep"
[adj] relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
[adj] difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
[adj] of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
[adj] with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
[adj] having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"
[adj] large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
[adj] extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
[adj] (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
[adj] marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
[adj] relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
[adj] extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
Webster (1913) Definition: Deep, adv.
To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. --Pope.
Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed
to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut,
deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, ``deep-uddered
kine.''
Deep, n.
1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or
ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.
--Cowley.
The hollow deep of hell resounded. --Milton.
Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound.
--Pope.
2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or
incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
Thy judgments are a great deep. --Ps. xxxvi.
6.
Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night;
dead of night.
The deep of night is crept upon our talk. --Shak.
Synonyms: abstruse, abysmal, abyssal, artful, bass, big, bottomless, broad, colorful, colourful, cryptic, cryptical, deeply, deep-water, distant, esoteric, heavy, in depth(p), incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, intense, large, late, low, low-pitched, mysterious, mystifying, oceanic abyss, profound, recondite, rich, sound, thick, trench, unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded, wakeless, walk-in(a), wide
Antonyms: shallow
See Also: Atacama Trench, Bougainville Trench, depression, Japan Trench, middle, Nares Deep, natural depression, ocean, unfathomable
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