PROFOUNDLY


Meaning of PROFOUNDLY in English

adverb

Etymology: Middle English, from profound + -ly

1. : with keen penetration and intellectual insight

inability to deal profoundly with life — John Portz

2. : at or as if at a great depth from the surface

why sigh you so profoundly — Shakespeare

3. : very deeply

I was profoundly glad to see it — D.L.Busk

4. : totally — used to indicate a degree of deafness

profoundly deaf children go through the babbling stage — I.J.Hirsh

from the profoundly deaf to the partially deaf — Minnie Hill

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.