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Deep

adjective
(compar. deeper; superl. deepest)
1.
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply.  "A deep sigh" , "Deep concentration" , "Deep emotion" , "A deep trance" , "In a deep sleep"  Antonym: shallow.
2.
Marked by depth of thinking.  "A deep allegory"
3.
Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination.  "A deep dive" , "Deep water" , "A deep casserole" , "A deep gash" , "Deep massage" , "Deep pressure receptors in muscles" , "Deep shelves" , "A deep closet" , "Surrounded by a deep yard" , "Hit the ball to deep center field" , "In deep space" , "Waist-deep"  Antonym: shallow.
4.
Very distant in time or space.  "Deep in enemy territory" , "Deep in the woods" , "A deep space probe"
5.
Extreme.  "Deep happiness"
6.
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range.  Synonym: bass.  "A bass voice is lower than a baritone voice" , "A bass clarinet"
7.
Strong; intense.  Synonym: rich.  "A rich red"
8.
Relatively thick from top to bottom.  "Deep snow"
9.
Extending relatively far inward.
10.
(of darkness) very intense.  Synonym: thick.  "Thick darkness" , "A face in deep shadow" , "Deep night"
11.
Large in quantity or size.
12.
With head or back bent low.
13.
Of an obscure nature.  Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.  "A deep dark secret" , "The inscrutable workings of Providence" , "In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" , "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
14.
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge.  Synonyms: abstruse, recondite.  "A deep metaphysical theory" , "Some recondite problem in historiography"
15.
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy.  "A deep plot"
adverb
1.
To a great depth;far down.  Synonym: deeply.  "Dug deep"
2.
To an advanced time.  Synonym: late.  "Talked late into the evening"
3.
To a great distance.  "Went deep into the woods"
noun
1.
The central and most intense or profound part.  "In the deep of winter"
2.
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.  Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench.
3.
Literary term for an ocean.



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"Deep" Quotes from Famous Books



... his temple, and discovered that it was deep and ragged—such a wound as a jagged ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... which had set in from an early hour that morning, still fell. Viewed from the drawing-room windows, the desolation of Portland Place in the dead season wore its aspect of deepest gloom. The dreary opposite houses were all shut up; the black mud was inches deep in the roadway; the soot, floating in tiny black particles, mixed with the falling rain, and heightened the dirty obscurity of the rising mist. Foot-passengers and vehicles, succeeding each other at rare intervals, left ...
— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins
... until before me, the moon being now high-risen, I saw the blackness cleft by a shaft of radiance and, coming nearer, stopped all at once to scowl at a small door in the wall that seemed to scowl back at me between deep buttresses. ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
... made by the archaeologist yields fresh testimony to the truth of the Old Testament stories. Since the manuscript of the present work was ready for the press, two such discoveries have been made by Mr. Pinches, to whom oriental archaeology and Biblical research are already under such deep obligations, and it has been possible only to glance at ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce
... no great affair. There was plenty of water, and they were carried racing smoothly down between low rocky banks. Stonor named the place the Grumbler from the deep throaty ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner


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