Deeply
['diːplɪ] or ['diplɪ]
Definition
(adv.) to a great depth;far down; 'dived deeply'; 'dug deep'.
Checker: Maisie--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
(adv.) Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
(adv.) Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
(adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
(adv.) With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Profoundly, deep, to or at a great depth, far down.[2]. Thoroughly, entirely, completely.[3]. Greatly, very much, in a high degree.
Editor: Myra
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEEP]
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am deeply sensible of your generosity, and I shall treasure its remembrance to my dying hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His loss is deeply felt in the flourishing colony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved--so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- They are not the thoughts of a model heroine under her circumstances, but they are those of a deeply-feeling, strongly-resentful peasant-girl. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I do not mean that the members weren't deeply touched by the misery of these thousands of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I was too deeply affected by his noble conduct to speak. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Has Maurice— I have said nothing, sir, cried Maurice, flushing deeply; how can you suspect me of such a thing? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He would be deeply offended if you entered on it to him unnecessarily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My heart was deeply and most deservedly humbled as I mused over the fire for an hour or more. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- His heart tingled with the pleasing conviction that these gross eulogiums shamed Moore deeply, and made him half scorn himself and his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Because I am truly, deeply, profoundly interested in you, Miss Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The next day, being of course deeply affected with Fred Lamb's absence, I went to call on Julia, _pour me distraire. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Alexandre Manette, said Defarge in his ear, following the letters with his swart forefinger, deeply engrained with gunpowder. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But if the thinker sees at all deeply into the life of his own time, his theoretical system will rest upon observation of human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And there are some things which are,' he stopped to sob, 'irreconcilable with that, and wound that--wound it deeply. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent, and withdrew from their hospitable guide. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I do, she murmured deeply. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I hope you may live to remember and feel deeply, what I shall have to communicate, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here Mr. Trotter sighed deeply. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He feels it on my account, I am afraid,' said Arabella; 'and indeed, Sir, I feel it deeply on his. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Economic activities deeply influence social intercourse and political organization on one side, and reflect physical conditions on the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How deeply, how suddenly she envied Ursula! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Probably early men did not go deeply into the caves, because they had no means of lighting their recesses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Lolita