profoundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: prə-found′, IPA: /pɹəˈfaʊnd/
• 韻: -aʊnd
• ハイフネーション: pro‧found

形容詞

profound (comparative more profound, superlative most profound)

1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog

2. Very deep; very serious.
3. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough.

   a profound investigation

   a profound scholar

   profound wisdom

   • 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, English Writers on America:

     Where no motives of interest or pride intervene, none can equal them for profound and philosophical views of society, ….

4. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?

   • 1860, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity : including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicholas V.:

     Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.

   • 2019, Shelina Janmohamed, “Long before Shamima Begum, Muslim women were targets”, in Guardian‎:

     It’s probably one of the reasons the Shamima Begum case is having such a profound impact; one-dimensional stereotypes about Muslim women already run so deep.

   • 2023 September 20, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: And it's goodbye from me...”, in RAIL, number 992, page 3:

     I visited the wreckage at Ladbroke Grove, Hatfield. Potters Bar and Heck, and the experiences had a profound effect on me - especially Ladbroke Grove.

5. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises.

   • a. 1662, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion, published 1683:

     What humble gestures! What profound reverence!

同意語

• deep-grounded

派生語

• profoundly
• profoundness

名詞

profound (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
   • 1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase vpon the Divine Poems, Exodvs 15:

     God, in the fathomlesse profound / Hath all his choice Commanders drown'd.

2. (obsolete) An abyss.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 976-980:

     […] if some other place, / From your dominion won, th' Ethereal King / Possesses lately, thither to arrive / travel this profound. Direct my course […]

動詞

profound (third-person singular simple present profounds, present participle profounding, simple past and past participle profounded)

1. (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
2. (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     But no man is likely to profound tbe Ocean of that Doctrine

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• profundicate
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