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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024depth /dɛpθ/USA pronunciation n. - Weights and Measuresa distance measured from the surface of something downward, or from the front backward or inward: [uncountable]The lake was 300 feet in depth.[countable]The submarine dove to a depth of 300 feet. At depths below thirty feet my ears begin to pop.
- the quality of being complex or difficult to understand:[uncountable]a question of great depth.
- gravity;
seriousness:[uncountable]explained the depth of the crisis facing the state. - intensity, such as of silence or color:[uncountable]a drawing with depth and richness of color.
- lowness of tonal pitch:[uncountable]the depth of a voice.
- the amount of a person's intelligence, insight, or emotion: [countable]showed a remarkable depth of understanding for one so young.[uncountable]the depth of one's feelings.
- depths, [plural] the deepest, farthest, or innermost part:the depths of the forest.
- Usually, depths. [plural] a low intellectual or moral condition:How could he sink to such depths?
- Sport the strength of a team's lineup of substitute players:[uncountable]It's the depth of the bench that wins championships.
Idioms- Idioms in depth, extensively;
thoroughly:The committee studied the problem in depth. - Idioms out of or beyond one's depth, beyond one's knowledge or capability:He's out of his depth on that assignment.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024depth (depth),USA pronunciation n. - Weights and Measuresa dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers.
- the quality of being deep;
deepness. - complexity or obscurity, as of a subject:a question of great depth.
- gravity;
seriousness. - emotional profundity:the depth of someone's feelings.
- intensity, as of silence, color, etc.
- lowness of tonal pitch:the depth of a voice.
- the amount of knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, insight, feeling, etc., present in a person's mind or evident either in some product of the mind, as a learned paper, argument, work of art, etc., or in the person's behavior.
- a high degree of such knowledge, insight, etc.
- Often, depths. a deep part or place:from the depths of the ocean.
- an unfathomable space;
abyss:the depth of time. - Sometimes, depths. the farthest, innermost, or extreme part or state:the depth of space;the depths of the forest;the depths of despair.
- Usually, depths. a low intellectual or moral condition:How could he sink to such depths?
- the part of greatest intensity, as of night or winter.
- Sportthe strength of a team in terms of the number and quality of its substitute players:With no depth in the infield, an injury to any of the regulars would be costly.
- Idioms in depth, extensively or thoroughly:Make a survey in depth of the conditions.
- Idioms out of or beyond one's depth.
- in water deeper than one's height or too deep for one's safety.
- beyond one's knowledge or capability:The child is being taught subjects that are beyond his depth.
- Middle English depthe, equivalent. to dep (Old English dēop deep) + -the -th1 1350–1400
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged shallowness.
- 9.See corresponding entry in Unabridged superficiality.
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