What does Deep Mean?

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • the central and most intense or profound part
  • literary term for an ocean
  • a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
Definition as Adjective
  • relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
  • marked by depth of thinking
  • 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
  • very distant in time or space
  • intense or extreme
  • relatively thick from top to bottom
  • extending relatively far inward
  • large in quantity or size
  • with head or back bent low
  • exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
  • difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
  • having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
  • of an obscure nature
  • strong; intense
  • (of darkness) densely dark
Definition as Adverb
  • to a great distance
  • to a great depth; far down or in
  • to an advanced time

Examples

  • "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
  • "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
  • "a deep well"; "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"
  • "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
  • "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
  • "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
  • "a deep border"
  • "deep cuts in the budget"
  • "a deep bow"
  • "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
  • "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
  • "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"
  • "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"
  • "deep purple"; "a rich red"
  • "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
  • "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods"
  • "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
  • "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
  • "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
  • "denizens of the deep"

Part of Speech

Adjective, Adverb, Noun