adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deep/profound influence
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His writings had a profound influence on the Romantic poets.
a profound impact (= very important )
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Population growth has a profound impact on world food demand.
deep/profound misgivings (= serious misgivings that will be difficult to solve )
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Teachers have deep misgivings about allowing business values to be used in schools.
my sincere/profound apologies (= used when you feel very sorry )
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Firstly, my sincere apologies for not having contacted you earlier.
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‘I have been guilty of making some insensitive remarks,’ said Wright, who offered his profound apologies to everyone concerned.
profound admiration (= very great admiration )
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Bacon had often expressed his profound admiration for Picasso’s paintings.
profound implications (= extremely important or serious )
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The transformation of Europe has profound implications for the defence industries.
profound/powerful (= very big, in a way that changes someone or something significantly )
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My father’s death had a profound effect on me.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The contrast between the two men was as profound as their rivalry was to become.
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This class division is further reflected, as profound truths so often are, in humour.
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Television has had as profound an effect on contemporary sport as the railway or the popular press had on Victorian sport.
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But the indirect effects may be more profound .
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The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd.
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It had been something more profound , less explicable, than disillusionment, mid-life restlessness, the fear of a threatened scandal.
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In the process, their commitment to one another and to their vision for Magma grew more profound .
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They have a high wall around them, more profound than most people, more detached and scientific.
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It would be more profound , more telling and considerably more painful than even what the nightly news has served.
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The estrangement became even more profound when he told them that he was gay.
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In the last decade, however, more profound questions have been posed.
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This last question is probably the most profound .
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On his desk lay scripts for the Easter Triduum, the three most profound and extravagant liturgical celebrations of the year.
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Internally however, the most profound changes are taking place.
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This parting of the ways is of the most profound importance.
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The eyes of those suffering from brain damage showed a most profound distress.
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The most superficial phenomena are sometimes the most profound .
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At the most profound , over which we had no conscious control, we were ideally suited and at peace.
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Of all the signs and symbols the most profound are the sacraments.
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Discoveries like this are so profound and so radical that they are not easily accepted by the scientific community.
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Or maybe the trauma was so profound that they preferred to forget.
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Because their physical needs were so profound , there was not enough time to take their psychological and spiritual needs seriously.
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This can be so profound that, for example, the patient is initially thought to have Guillain-Barre syndrome.
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The post-war period has also been characterized by very profound changes in family and household formation patterns.
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We are seeing more people survive with very , very profound injuries because of new emergency treatment.
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This reflects very profound social changes in the number and type of independent households within contemporary Britain.
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Depression can be very profound , preventing the patient from doing any activity and with a significant risk of suicide.
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It may not be very profound , but it is supremely satisfying.
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One for every house in the window. Very profound !
■ NOUN
change
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Internally however, the most profound changes are taking place.
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Something else is needed, something that fits better with the profound changes we are going through.
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If one talks to Quebecers it is clear that a profound change in attitudes has occurred.
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Diana's thoughts were on the profound changes ahead.
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Art and artists have undergone profound changes since then.
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Between September 1926 and May 1927 Nizan underwent a profound change in his intellectual and emotional outlook.
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The post-war period has also been characterized by very profound changes in family and household formation patterns.
consequence
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And this had profound consequences for the functioning of each system.
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December is a month when what is said and who you meet could have profound consequences .
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As these change, so do capacities for different forms of political action, with profound consequences for the Labour Party.
difference
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Thus, Soviet and western art students shared similar struggles, yet they were also divided by profound differences .
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You should notice a profound difference .
disagreement
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There are, of course, profound disagreements between Marxist and elite writers as to the causal factors generating this phenomena.
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This has not removed the scope for profound disagreement about the relevance of such conditions.
effect
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Yet these elements have had a profound effect on the evolution of the Earth because of their radioactivity.
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This would have a profound effect on company organization.
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Selection pressure operates on all stages of life cycles and has profound effects on the physiology and biochemistry of parasites.
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The changes have had a profound effect .
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Yet its timing, duration, scale and outcome were to have a profound effect upon the form that the revolution took.
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Ideas about baby feeding and weaning are constantly changing and actual practice can have a profound effect on child health.
impact
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Population growth has and will have a profound impact upon world food demand.
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Being part of a group of superb people has a profound impact on every member.
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In any case, the work of insiders advocating social change is invaluable and has a profound impact .
implication
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This will have profound implications for established roles and relationships, and the development of people with talent to fill the roles.
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This has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of sexually monomorphic ornaments in many other bird species.
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This has profound implications for our relationship, which should mirror that of Gods; caring and nurturing love for us.
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The report, which has profound implications for water managers, gives a detailed review of 1992.
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The profound implications for pupils' relationships with their families and communities should be recognised.
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This observation of Freud's has profound implications for the way in which psychoanalytic theory about groups and societies is built up.
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The use of pupil-managed learning has profound implications for the more effective deployment of skilled resources.
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The above design conclusions have profound implications for the construction details of my chair.
importance
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This reveals the profound importance of trust in a marriage.
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We attach profound importance to the fact that some industries advance.
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Without doubt, the latter development represents a secular change in the strategic environment of profound importance .
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This parting of the ways is of the most profound importance .
influence
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Although not formally a member Gore had a profound influence on Leese.
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Could such extraordinary images not exert a profound influence on art in this century?
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The designer's close encounter of severe illness had a profound influence on his scheme.
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Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues.
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The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape.
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He had a profound influence at a personal level on his contemporaries.
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These two beliefs, not overtly of political relevance, are to exert a profound influence on political thought.
insight
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But life is not all clear, and the most profound insights in this life and the world are not clear propositions.
level
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In the sacraments the physical and the spiritual are connected on a profound level .
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I had to believe that history, destiny, was written at a much more profound level .
question
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To these vitally important and profound questions there are no simple answers.
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In the last decade, however, more profound questions have been posed.
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This is a profound question , and present-day quantum theory does not really provide us with a satisfying answer.
sense
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There was an even more profound sense in which the prevailing version of good practice was deficient.
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And yet, he could see in his grandfather a shameless self-importance, a profound sense of entitlement.
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The staff in turn are likely to experience guilt and a profound sense of failure.
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He blushed from a profound sense of embarrassment.
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In a profound sense we doubt not only because we are ignorant of something but because we are absolutely certain of nothing.
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Overall there is a profound sense of estrangement and disappointment afoot in our country.
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Because of this profound sense of acceptance, we understand and come to terms with our own uniqueness.
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Hurrying out with a profound sense of failure, she brushed by a man watching from the stairs of the rehearsal studio.
shift
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Ken Livingstone's ejection from the executive was merely the most public manifestation of a profound shift in Labour's internal ecology.
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Events to date represent only the beginnings of a more profound shift .
transformation
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A profound transformation took place, one which was far from obvious to the casual outside observer.
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In short, the commercialization of the Internet promises to produce profound transformation of business and economic forces in the global marketplace.
truth
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This class division is further reflected, as profound truths so often are, in humour.
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The artist, he insisted, was capable of extracting a more profound truth from nature.
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Fuentes here touches on a profound truth-that memory best resides in the feminine.
understanding
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But how do we recognize a genuine or a profound understanding of society?
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This new attitude assumes that beliefs in occult power are solidly based in a true and more profound understanding of ultimate verities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a profound remark
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a book with profound social implications
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Burton's lecture was amusing as well as being profound .
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Further research has resulted in a more profound appreciation of the problem.
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Her death left me with a profound sense of sadness.
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Much of what he had to say was very profound .
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The book contains a great many profound insights into human behaviour.
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The impact of these changes will be profound .
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There was a profound silence after his remark.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was also seen as inflicting profound effects on individuals' lives.
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The changes have had a profound effect.
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The morning air grows thick with incense and the droning of ancient sutras, as lulling and profound as waves.
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To achieve this a set of regulations has been introduced which is having a profound effect on the electrical and electronics sectors.
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Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.
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Very few fully appreciated their profound influence on their junior colleagues.
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Women who through their racism, collusion and a profound lack of political intelligence, made my sisters and me completely invisible.
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Yet when death whisks away that incandescent vitality, the shock is all the more electric and profound .