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Deep

adjective

(compar. deeper; superl. deepest)

1.

Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply. "A deep sigh" , "Deep concentration" , "Deep emotion" , "A deep trance" , "In a deep sleep"

2.

Marked by depth of thinking. "A deep allegory"

3.

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. "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"

4.

Very distant in time or space. "Deep in enemy territory" , "Deep in the woods" , "A deep space probe"

5.

Extreme. "Deep happiness"

6.

Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range. Synonym: bass. "A bass voice is lower than a baritone voice" , "A bass clarinet"

7.

Strong; intense. Synonym: rich. "A rich red"

8.

Relatively thick from top to bottom. "Deep snow"

9.

Extending relatively far inward.

10.

(of darkness) very intense. Synonym: thick. "Thick darkness" , "A face in deep shadow" , "Deep night"

11.

Large in quantity or size.

12.

With head or back bent low.

13.

Of an obscure nature. Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. "A deep dark secret" , "The inscrutable workings of Providence" , "In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life" , "Rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

14.

Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge. Synonyms: abstruse, recondite. "A deep metaphysical theory" , "Some recondite problem in historiography"

15.

Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy. "A deep plot"

adverb

1.

To a great depth;far down. Synonym: deeply. "Dug deep"

2.

To an advanced time. Synonym: late. "Talked late into the evening"

3.

To a great distance. "Went deep into the woods"

noun

1.

The central and most intense or profound part. "In the deep of winter"

2.

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor. Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench.

3.

Literary term for an ocean.

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"Deep" Quotes from Famous Books

... because hanged people look so, are apt to conclude that it must have been strangled. But those who are in the practice of midwifery know that nothing is more common in natural births, and that the swelling and deep colour go gradually off, if the child lives but a few days. This appearance is particularly observable in those cases where the naval string happens to gird the child's neck, and where its head happens to be born ...

— On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children • William Hunter

... attention to Bordman. But there was a hum of absorbed discussion, in which Redfeather and Chuka were immediately included. By calculation, it astoundingly appeared that if the air on Xosa II was really as clear as the bright stars and deep day-sky color indicated, every second night a total drop of one hundred and eighty degrees temperature could be secured by radiation to interstellar space—if there were no convection-currents, and ...

— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... the two last being colored. They marched at one A. M., by the flank, in the above order, hoping to surprise the battery. As usual the rebels were prepared for them, and opened upon them as they were deep in one of those almost impassable Southern marshes. The One Hundred and Third New York, which had previously been in twenty battles, was thrown into confusion; the Thirty-Third United States did better, being behind; the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts being in the rear, did better still. ...

— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... floors, swept through the broken walls. High up over the building the flames climbed, carrying with them sparks and cinders, and in come instances large pieces of timber. All that saved the lower part of the city from fiery destruction was the fact that a solid bed of snow a foot deep lay upon the roofs of all the buildings. During all this time there was comparative quiet, notwithstanding the fact that the fire gradually extended across Jackson street and also across Seventh street. Besides the hotel, ...

— Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul • Frank Moore

... A delicious feeling came over him as he watched the clear, sky-glinting loops unwind themselves in the grass while the car jogged along. There were the big stones over the edges of which the brown water broke into dancing crests of crystal bubbles when the river was full, and the deep pools under the hollow banks where they had seen the trout that was the size of a young whale, and the twisted wild cherry tree from beneath which the eddies sometimes twirled away bearing fleets of frail, snowy petals. And Johnny and Katty and the rest might all come into view paddling ...

— Strangers at Lisconnel • Barlow Jane

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