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