Profoundly
[prə'faʊndlɪ] or [prə'faʊndli]
Definition
(adv.) to a great depth psychologically; 'They felt the loss deeply'.
Editor: Ronda--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a profound manner.
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- Because I am truly, deeply, profoundly interested in you, Miss Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our modern idea, that any one in the state is a citizen, would have shocked the privileged democrats of Athens profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet his account of the Eightfold Path is, nevertheless, within these limitations, profoundly wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That the latter does not guarantee conduct, that it does not profoundly affect character, goes without saying. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But they all of them profoundly influenced men's subsequent thinking and their ideas about education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After one boot was fairly on, the senator sat with the other in his hand, profoundly studying the figure of the carpet. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The authors of the book are profoundly conscious of the fact that the extraordinary period of electrical development embraced in it has been prolific of great men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To all this, Mr Venus, with his shock of dusty hair cocked after the manner of a terrier's ears, attends profoundly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was an officer in command of the soldiers; a stout, serviceable, profoundly calm man, with his drawn sword in his hand, smoking a cigar. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Macmurdo looked at his principal with the air of a man profoundly puzzled, and Rawdon felt with a kind of rage that his prey was escaping him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was incapable of soulfulness and tragedy, which she detested so profoundly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He stopped, and gave me a short, strong answer; an answer which silenced, subdued, yet profoundly satisfied. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For the greater part of the night, I sat smoking, and building up theories, one more profoundly improbable than another. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a far more civilized and profoundly sceptical world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are as yet profoundly ignorant of the many occasional means of transport. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now took a double dose, and soon slept profoundly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But he was profoundly mortified by the lady's inattention to him during their stay at Brussels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was overawed by the Serjeant, and profoundly courteous to the attorney. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was a hard matter to preserve the innocent deceit of which they were profoundly unsuspicious. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She did not raise her voice above her breath, or address us, but said this to the night sky; then stood profoundly quiet, looking at the gloomy water. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But from the point of view of the surviving mammalian life of the Miocene, they mattered profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it is profoundly true. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But all was profoundly hushed in the noonday stillness of a house, where an invalid catches the unrefreshing sleep that is denied to the night-hours. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But in one sense the Preacher's words are ever profoundly true. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is natural to such a man to be so, says Sir Leicester, looking most profoundly obstinate himself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The constable nodded profoundly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I never asked to be made learned, and you compel me to feel very profoundly that learning is not happiness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checker: Sondra