单词 | unprofound |
释义 | unprofoundadj. Not profound; shallow, superficial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [adjective] > of mind, thought, etc. feeble1393 weak1423 unsubtlea1500 shallowc1595 uncapacious1635 unprofound1677 shoal1728 rickety1738 sicklya1771 inexcursive1837 no-brow1922 1677 T. Harvey tr. J. Owen Epigrams 89 Thy Wit is round, Or sharp thy Memory: Both unprofound. 1828 L. Hunt Ld. Byron & Some Contemp. 114 M. Beyle,..a very sprightly and sometimes no unprofound writer, has given an excellent sketch of Lord Byron. a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1891) I. 26 The joy of an infant, or joy-generation, without significance to an unprofound and common mind. 1958 Philos. Sci. 25 246/2 Such historical atomism can only strike one as unprofound. 2007 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 21 Jan. 26 This very unprofound message [sc. to never give up] is repeatedly pushed at the audience in increasingly heavy-handed ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1677 |
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