GRE vocabulary
profound
having great depth of meaning, insight, or intensity
In a sentence
Profound in a sentence
Here is an example sentence showing profound in a sentence.
The loss had a profound effect on the entire community.
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Questions about “profound”
Profound (adjective) means having great depth of meaning, insight, or intensity
Here is profound used in an example sentence: "The loss had a profound effect on the entire community."
Common synonyms for profound include deep, penetrating, weighty, abstruse.
Antonyms of profound include shallow, superficial, trivial.
Profound is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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