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DEEP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Literary term for an ocean
Example:
denizens of the deep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
depression; natural depression (a sunken or depressed geological formation)
Instance hyponyms:
Atacama Trench (a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile)
Bougainville Trench (a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands)
Japan Trench (a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Japan that reaches depths of 30,000 feet)
Nares Deep (a depression in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of Haiti and Puerto Rico)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The central and most intense or profound part
Example:
in the deep of winter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("deep" is a kind of...):
middle (time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period)
Derivation:
deep ((of darkness) densely dark)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
Example:
a deep plot
Classified under:
Similar:
artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Strong; intense
Example:
a rich red
Synonyms:
deep; rich
Classified under:
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Very distant in time or space
Example:
a deep space probe
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)
Sense 4
Meaning:
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
Example:
waist-deep
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
walk-in ((of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter)
profound; unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded (situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed)
deep-water (of or carried on in waters of great depth)
bottomless (extremely deep)
abysmal; abyssal; unfathomable (resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable)
Also:
unfathomable (of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured)
Attribute:
deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)
Antonym:
shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)
Derivation:
deepness (the quality of being physically deep)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Example:
in a deep sleep
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
heavy; profound; sound; wakeless ((of sleep) deep and complete)
profound (coming from deep within one)
Attribute:
deepness; depth (the extent downward or backward or inward)
Antonym:
shallow (not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Example:
some recondite problem in historiography
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
esoteric (confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Of an obscure nature
Example:
rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
Synonyms:
cryptic; cryptical; deep; inscrutable; mysterious; mystifying
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
incomprehensible; inexplicable (incapable of being explained or accounted for)
Sense 8
Meaning:
With head or back bent low
Example:
a deep bow
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
low (literal meanings; being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Example:
a bass clarinet
Synonyms:
bass; deep
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
low; low-pitched (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)
Derivation:
deepness (a low pitch that is loud and voluminous)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Large in quantity or size
Example:
deep cuts in the budget
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Sense 11
Meaning:
Intense or extreme
Example:
deep happiness
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Sense 12
Meaning:
(of darkness) densely dark
Example:
deep night
Synonyms:
deep; thick
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
Derivation:
deep (the central and most intense or profound part)
Sense 13
Meaning:
Marked by depth of thinking
Example:
a deep allegory
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
profound (showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth)
Derivation:
deepness (the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas)
Sense 14
Meaning:
Relatively thick from top to bottom
Example:
deep snow
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)
Derivation:
deepness (the quality of being physically deep)
Sense 15
Meaning:
Extending relatively far inward
Example:
a deep border
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
broad; wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a great depth; far down or in
Example:
dug deep
Synonyms:
deep; deeply
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
To a great distance
Example:
went deep into the woods
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Pertainym:
deep (very distant in time or space)
Sense 3
Meaning:
To an advanced time
Example:
talked late into the evening
Synonyms:
deep; late
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Adverbs
Context examples:
The gray of earth and sky had become deeper, more profound.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Far away we could hear the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of an hour.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But where Silver stood with his lieutenant, all was still in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low white vapour that had crawled during the night out of the morass.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The deep grief which this scene had at first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Poor Harry Jekyll, he thought, my mind misgives me he is in deep waters!
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
What horrible purpose, what deep design, lay behind this long pursuit?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A measurement of the plasmacytoid lymphocytes (lymphocytes with peripherally clumped chromatin and often deep blue cytoplasm, and that appear similar to plasma cells) in a biological specimen.
(Plasmacytoid Lymphocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Histologically-confirmed deep attachment of the placenta into the myometrium and serosa.
(Placenta Percreta, NCI Thesaurus)
Had she done it an instant sooner we should have crashed against the wood-work, carried it away, and been hurled into the deep gully below.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Plainly said and bravely spoken, my suckling friar,” roared a deep voice, and a heavy hand fell upon Alleyne's shoulder.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
