profoundly
/pɹəˈfaʊndli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With depth, meaningfully.
adv
Very importantly.
adv
Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.
Example Sentences
- "He thought and wrote profoundly."
- "More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions."
- "From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled."
- "Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him."
- "In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs."
- "In 1997, Turkheimer, perhaps the preëminent behavior geneticist of his generation, published a short political meditation called “The Search for a Psychometric Left,” in which he called upon his fellow-liberals to accept that they had nothing to fear from genes. He proposed that “a psychometric left would recognize that human ability, individual differences in human ability, measures of human ability, and genetic influences on human ability are all real but profoundly complex, too complex for the imposition of biogenetic or political schemata.)"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more profoundly (comparative)
most profoundly (superlative)