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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"
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"
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



... for intercepting this march; I was for calling upon her, and paying our respects to her, at home; I was for giving her to know that we, too, had a right of way over the seas, and that our marine officers and our sailors were not entire strangers on the bosom of the deep. I was for doing something more with our navy than keeping it on our own shores, for the protection of our coasts and harbors; I was for giving play to its gallant and burning spirit; for allowing it to go forth upon the seas, and to encounter, on an open and an equal field, whatever ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... sublime, good sir!" cried the young man in a loud voice, waking from a deep reverie. "These figures, the saint and the boatman, have a subtile meaning which the Italian painters cannot give. I do not know one of them who could have invented that hesitation ...
— The Hidden Masterpiece • Honore de Balzac
... engine electrically, so that we guide our own destinies though we are a mile beneath our power plant. Stanley works the pump. I direct the searchlight, write down notes, and, I sincerely hope, take snapshots of deep sea life." ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... going out, by a former promise of the Duke's, and offering to give as much as any for it. This put us all into a great dumpe, and so we went to Creed's new lodging in the Mewes, and there we found Creed with his parrot upon his shoulder, which struck Mr. Povy coming by just by the eye, very deep, which, had it hit his eye, had put it out. This a while troubled us, but not proving very bad, we to our business consulting what to do; at last resolved, and I to Mr. Coventry, and there had his most friendly and ingenuous ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... her laughter, were deep and masculine. Everything about her was manly. She had a large, square, middle-aged face, with a massive projecting nose and little greenish eyes, the whole surmounted by a lofty and elaborate coiffure of a curiously improbable shade of orange. Looking at her, Denis always ...
— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley


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