profoundlyadv.

Brit.

/prəˈfaʊndli/, U.S.

/prəˈfaʊn(d)li/,

/proʊˈfaʊn(d)li/

Forms: see profound adj. and n. and -ly suffix²; also late Middle English parfondly, 1500s profounedely.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profound adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < profound adj. + -ly suffix². Compare Middle French, French profondément (c1225 in Old French as profondement ; earlier as parfundement , parfondement (both 12th cent.)). Compare profoundness n.

a. To or at a great depth; far down or in. Also figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adverb]

deepOE

profoundly?a1425

deeply1573

thick1670

adeep1850

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 62 (MED) Contusion..is a separacioun & dilaceracion, rentyng, made profoundly in musculous flesh.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5693 (MED) The lettres..in the stonys Wer profoundely and depe y-grave.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 118 (MED) Þe more profoundly [L. profundius] þat a man goþ dovn into himself..þe hyer he stieþ up to god.

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (1607) xxv. 203 Cares and thoughts..do..in his troubled braine profoundly sinke.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xii. 53 He..should..plonge himselfe profoundly in the pursuit of causes.

1700 J. Hopkins Amasia II. ii. 60 Beneath this Throne, plac'd most profoundly low, That vast, and boundless, Sea, Eternity, does flow.

1790 French Revol. iv. 27 To fall, profoundly fall Back to my native nothing.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Profundus, a name given to..parts, which are seated profoundly as regards others.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xvii. 11 Where..descends most profoundly the bottom.

1916 J. C. Bracq France under Republic (rev. ed.) i. 19 The principles of political equality..are sinking profoundly into the national consciousness.

1983 J. McPhee In Suspect Terrain 78 In the post-tectonic, profoundly eroded East, quartzite has tended to stand up high.

1999 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard 24 Sept. (Weekend section) 10/4 At its deepest level, profoundly down there below the surface, it is something more.

b. So as to come from or sink to a great depth; spec. (of sighing, etc.) with a deep breath; (of bowing) with a deep inclination.Frequently with the implication of deeply-felt emotion (cf. sense 3, profound adj. 3b, and profound adj. 3d).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adverb] > so as to come from a depth

profoundly1480

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [adverb] > of an obeisance: profoundly or deeply

profoundlya1811

1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xi. xix She wayled and syghed perfondly.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. iii. 6 Why sigh you so profoundly..tell me sweeet [sic] Vncle, whats the matter.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 179 The Virgin started at her Father's Name, And sigh'd profoundly.

a1811 W. Blake Poet. Wks. (1905) 231 Then,..bowing profoundly, he said: ‘A great wig’.

1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xii. 161 ‘Madame,’ said I, bowing profoundly.

1904 J. Conrad Nostromo iii. iii. 290 Captain Mitchell sighed profoundly.

1960 H. Nicolson Eighteenth Cent. (1961) 292 The last courtier, bowing profoundly, had backed out of the bedroom.

2004 Pediatric Nursing (Nexis) 30 238 He hugs me and sobs profoundly—sobs that seemed to dig right down to his gut.

2. With intellectual depth; with great insight or penetration into a subject; very learnedly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [adverb]

deeplyc888

profoundly?a1425

reachingly1664

brilliantly1882

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adverb] > with profound knowledge

deeplyc1400

profoundly?a1425

reconditely1722

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 73 (MED) He preched mare profoundely of Haly Writte þan oþer didd.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 8 (MED) Inpugners..seme good bifore..lay men..and at multitude of clerkis..not profundeli endewid in dyuynite.

1561 Newe Enterlude Script. Queene Hester sig. Bij^v In learninge and litterature, profoundely seene.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. 43 It hath bin very profondly said, that man is a god unto man.

1604 T. Bilson Svrv. Christes Svfferings 23 You thinke the maine question is profoundly and fully handled.

1651 Poem in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 421 Most profoundly by him doctrinated.

1702 J. Fox Door of Heaven 17 He may be able to dispute..accurately and profoundly about Theological Principles..and yet have nothing in him to Intitle him to Christ.

1790 Mythol. made Easy 87 He [sc. Æolus] was said to be the god of the winds, from his having studied astronomy so profoundly as to be able to calculate..the continuance of all winds and tempests.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans viii. 98 He dropped his chin to his hand, like a man musing profoundly on the nature of the proposal.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 63/2 Those who have not studied very profoundly.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End v. 587 Tibby..is profoundly versed in counterpoint, and holds the full score open on his knee.

1949 Lima (Ohio) News 22 July 20/3 Religion will be able to understand far more subtly and profoundly why men hate rather than love.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 June 16/3 David Halberstam..writes breezily but profoundly about the time that shaped the postwar world.

3. To a great extent or degree; thoroughly, intensely, extremely.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adverb]

deepa1000

inwardlya1000

inlyOE

mortallyc1390

deeplya1400

keena1400

keenlya1400

from the bottom of one's hearta1413

from (also fro) one's heart1477

profoundly1489

from the spleen?a1505

sensibly1577

with sense1578

smartlyc1580

soakingly1593

dearly1604

intimately1637

viscerally1637

exquisitely1678

sensitively1793

exaltedly1855

intensely1860

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb]

stronglyeOE

felec950

strongeOE

highlyOE

highOE

greatlya1200

stourlya1225

greata1325

dreec1330

deeplya1400

mightya1400

dreichlyc1400

mighty?a1425

sorec1440

mainlyc1450

greatumly1456

madc1487

profoundly1489

stronglya1492

muchwhata1513

shrewlya1529

heapa1547

vengeance?1548

sorely1562

smartlyc1580

mightly1582

mightily1587

violently1601

intensively1604

almightily1612

violent1629

seriously1643

intensely1646

importunately1660

shrewdly1664

gey1686

sadly1738

plenty1775

vitally1787

substantively1795

badly1813

far1814

heavily1819

serious1825

measurably1834

dearly1843

bally1939

majorly1955

sizzlingly1956

majorly1978

fecking1983

1489 W. Caxton De Roye's Doctrinal of Sapyence lxii. sig. Hviij^v Saint Austyn saith that the synnes of an euyl prest empessheth not the sacrament, but he dampneth him right parfondly.

?c1500 J. Blount tr. N. Upton Essent. Portions De Studio Militari (1931) xii I parceuyd the booke was myxt Ande intricat,..So that the translacion therof Accordyngly requiryde A man profounedely lerenyde Ande expert in All facultes: wher as I scasely Attayn to the competent knawleche of ony of the leyste.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKvii^v If the hert be profoundely meke.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 105 He..wanted money the sinews of war, his Exchequer being profoundly dry.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 230 They found all..as profoundly secure, as Sleep..could make them.

1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria II. xii. 66 I slept profoundly and woke with a mind composed to encounter the struggles of the day.

1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard iii. ii It was a night well fitted to their enterprise—calm, still, and profoundly dark.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 175 Profoundly ignorant of the English constitution.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 32 The..limits were kept profoundly secret.

1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 86 The young man was his first specimen; the specimen had profoundly perplexed him.

1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. ix. 164 Hebrew prophetism is profoundly ethical and dynamic.

2002 Independent 17 Apr. i. 3/4 The electorate..seems profoundly disenchanted with the big parties.

Compounds

profoundly deaf adj. having hearing that is severely impaired, esp. to an extent that prevents the understanding of speech by listening only.Later often used specifically of persons unable to hear sounds quieter than 80 to 95 decibels.

ΚΠ

1834 15th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1833 32 Our country, at this moment, presents us with a remarkable phenomenon, in the existence of three mute writers of poetry, all profoundly deaf.

1922 Amer. Ann. of Deaf 67 149 The profoundly deaf baby's brain..receives no impressions from speech if his eyes do not chance to be focused on the lips of the speaker at the moment of the utterance.

2021 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 15 May 11 An audiologist diagnoses her as ‘profoundly deaf’ in her left ear.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	profoundly
释义	profoundlyadv. Brit. /prəˈfaʊndli/, U.S. /prəˈfaʊn(d)li/, /proʊˈfaʊn(d)li/ Forms: see profound adj. and n. and -ly suffix²; also late Middle English parfondly, 1500s profounedely. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profound adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < profound adj. + -ly suffix². Compare Middle French, French profondément (c1225 in Old French as profondement ; earlier as parfundement , parfondement (both 12th cent.)). Compare profoundness n. 1. a. To or at a great depth; far down or in. Also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adverb] deepOE profoundly?a1425 deeply1573 thick1670 adeep1850 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 62 (MED) Contusion..is a separacioun & dilaceracion, rentyng, made profoundly in musculous flesh. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 5693 (MED) The lettres..in the stonys Wer profoundely and depe y-grave. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 118 (MED) Þe more profoundly [L. profundius] þat a man goþ dovn into himself..þe hyer he stieþ up to god. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (1607) xxv. 203 Cares and thoughts..do..in his troubled braine profoundly sinke. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xii. 53 He..should..plonge himselfe profoundly in the pursuit of causes. 1700 J. Hopkins Amasia II. ii. 60 Beneath this Throne, plac'd most profoundly low, That vast, and boundless, Sea, Eternity, does flow. 1790 French Revol. iv. 27 To fall, profoundly fall Back to my native nothing. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Profundus, a name given to..parts, which are seated profoundly as regards others. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xvii. 11 Where..descends most profoundly the bottom. 1916 J. C. Bracq France under Republic (rev. ed.) i. 19 The principles of political equality..are sinking profoundly into the national consciousness. 1983 J. McPhee In Suspect Terrain 78 In the post-tectonic, profoundly eroded East, quartzite has tended to stand up high. 1999 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard 24 Sept. (Weekend section) 10/4 At its deepest level, profoundly down there below the surface, it is something more. b. So as to come from or sink to a great depth; spec. (of sighing, etc.) with a deep breath; (of bowing) with a deep inclination.Frequently with the implication of deeply-felt emotion (cf. sense 3, profound adj. 3b, and profound adj. 3d). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > extension downwards or depth > [adverb] > so as to come from a depth profoundly1480 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [adverb] > of an obeisance: profoundly or deeply profoundlya1811 1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xi. xix She wayled and syghed perfondly. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. iii. 6 Why sigh you so profoundly..tell me sweeet [sic] Vncle, whats the matter. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 179 The Virgin started at her Father's Name, And sigh'd profoundly. a1811 W. Blake Poet. Wks. (1905) 231 Then,..bowing profoundly, he said: ‘A great wig’. 1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xii. 161 ‘Madame,’ said I, bowing profoundly. 1904 J. Conrad Nostromo iii. iii. 290 Captain Mitchell sighed profoundly. 1960 H. Nicolson Eighteenth Cent. (1961) 292 The last courtier, bowing profoundly, had backed out of the bedroom. 2004 Pediatric Nursing (Nexis) 30 238 He hugs me and sobs profoundly—sobs that seemed to dig right down to his gut. 2. With intellectual depth; with great insight or penetration into a subject; very learnedly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [adverb] deeplyc888 profoundly?a1425 reachingly1664 brilliantly1882 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adverb] > with profound knowledge deeplyc1400 profoundly?a1425 reconditely1722 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 73 (MED) He preched mare profoundely of Haly Writte þan oþer didd. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 8 (MED) Inpugners..seme good bifore..lay men..and at multitude of clerkis..not profundeli endewid in dyuynite. 1561 Newe Enterlude Script. Queene Hester sig. Bij^v In learninge and litterature, profoundely seene. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. i. 43 It hath bin very profondly said, that man is a god unto man. 1604 T. Bilson Svrv. Christes Svfferings 23 You thinke the maine question is profoundly and fully handled. 1651 Poem in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 421 Most profoundly by him doctrinated. 1702 J. Fox Door of Heaven 17 He may be able to dispute..accurately and profoundly about Theological Principles..and yet have nothing in him to Intitle him to Christ. 1790 Mythol. made Easy 87 He [sc. Æolus] was said to be the god of the winds, from his having studied astronomy so profoundly as to be able to calculate..the continuance of all winds and tempests. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans viii. 98 He dropped his chin to his hand, like a man musing profoundly on the nature of the proposal. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 63/2 Those who have not studied very profoundly. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End v. 587 Tibby..is profoundly versed in counterpoint, and holds the full score open on his knee. 1949 Lima (Ohio) News 22 July 20/3 Religion will be able to understand far more subtly and profoundly why men hate rather than love. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 June 16/3 David Halberstam..writes breezily but profoundly about the time that shaped the postwar world. 3. To a great extent or degree; thoroughly, intensely, extremely. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > [adverb] deepa1000 inwardlya1000 inlyOE mortallyc1390 deeplya1400 keena1400 keenlya1400 from the bottom of one's hearta1413 from (also fro) one's heart1477 profoundly1489 from the spleen?a1505 sensibly1577 with sense1578 smartlyc1580 soakingly1593 dearly1604 intimately1637 viscerally1637 exquisitely1678 sensitively1793 exaltedly1855 intensely1860 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] stronglyeOE felec950 strongeOE highlyOE highOE greatlya1200 stourlya1225 greata1325 dreec1330 deeplya1400 mightya1400 dreichlyc1400 mighty?a1425 sorec1440 mainlyc1450 greatumly1456 madc1487 profoundly1489 stronglya1492 muchwhata1513 shrewlya1529 heapa1547 vengeance?1548 sorely1562 smartlyc1580 mightly1582 mightily1587 violently1601 intensively1604 almightily1612 violent1629 seriously1643 intensely1646 importunately1660 shrewdly1664 gey1686 sadly1738 plenty1775 vitally1787 substantively1795 badly1813 far1814 heavily1819 serious1825 measurably1834 dearly1843 bally1939 majorly1955 sizzlingly1956 majorly1978 fecking1983 1489 W. Caxton De Roye's Doctrinal of Sapyence lxii. sig. Hviij^v Saint Austyn saith that the synnes of an euyl prest empessheth not the sacrament, but he dampneth him right parfondly. ?c1500 J. Blount tr. N. Upton Essent. Portions De Studio Militari (1931) xii I parceuyd the booke was myxt Ande intricat,..So that the translacion therof Accordyngly requiryde A man profounedely lerenyde Ande expert in All facultes: wher as I scasely Attayn to the competent knawleche of ony of the leyste. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKvii^v If the hert be profoundely meke. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 105 He..wanted money the sinews of war, his Exchequer being profoundly dry. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 230 They found all..as profoundly secure, as Sleep..could make them. 1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria II. xii. 66 I slept profoundly and woke with a mind composed to encounter the struggles of the day. 1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard iii. ii It was a night well fitted to their enterprise—calm, still, and profoundly dark. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 175 Profoundly ignorant of the English constitution. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 32 The..limits were kept profoundly secret. 1903 H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 86 The young man was his first specimen; the specimen had profoundly perplexed him. 1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. ix. 164 Hebrew prophetism is profoundly ethical and dynamic. 2002 Independent 17 Apr. i. 3/4 The electorate..seems profoundly disenchanted with the big parties. Compounds profoundly deaf adj. having hearing that is severely impaired, esp. to an extent that prevents the understanding of speech by listening only.Later often used specifically of persons unable to hear sounds quieter than 80 to 95 decibels. ΚΠ 1834 15th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1833 32 Our country, at this moment, presents us with a remarkable phenomenon, in the existence of three mute writers of poetry, all profoundly deaf. 1922 Amer. Ann. of Deaf 67 149 The profoundly deaf baby's brain..receives no impressions from speech if his eyes do not chance to be focused on the lips of the speaker at the moment of the utterance. 2021 West Australian (Perth) (Nexis) 15 May 11 An audiologist diagnoses her as ‘profoundly deaf’ in her left ear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.?a1425
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