'DEEP' definitions:
Definition of 'deep'
From: WordNet
adverb
To a great depth;far down; "dived deeply"; "dug deep" [syn: deeply, deep]
adverb
To an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening" [syn: deep, late]
adverb
To a great distance; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods"
adjective
Relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep" [ant: shallow]
adjective
Marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
adjective
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 well"; "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" [ant: shallow]
adjective
Very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
adjective
Extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
adjective
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet" [syn: bass, deep]
adjective
Strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red" [syn: deep, rich]
adjective
Relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
adjective
Extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
adjective
(of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: thick, deep]
adjective
Large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
adjective
With head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
adjective
Of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]
adjective
Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography" [syn: abstruse, deep, recondite]
adjective
Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
noun
The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
noun
A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor [syn: trench, deep, oceanic abyss]
noun
Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"
Definition of 'Deep'
From: GCIDE
- Deep \Deep\ (d[=e]p), a. [Compar. Deeper (d[=e]p"[~e]r); superl. Deepest (d[=e]p"[e^]st).] [OE. dep, deop, AS. de['o]p; akin to D. diep, G. tief, Icel. dj[=u]pr, Sw. diup, Dan. dyb, Goth. diups; fr. the root of E. dip, dive. See Dip, Dive.]
- 1. Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. [1913 Webster]
- The water where the brook is deep. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. [1913 Webster]
- Shadowing squadrons deep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot. [1913 Webster]
- Speculations high or deep. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A question deep almost as the mystery of life. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- O Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. --Ps. xcii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning. [1913 Webster]
- Deep clerks she dumbs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror. "Deep despair." --Milton. "Deep silence." --Milton. "Deep sleep." --Gen. ii. 21. "Deeper darkness." --Hoole. "Their deep poverty." --2 Cor. viii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- An attitude of deep respect. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. "The deep thunder." --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- The bass of heaven's deep organ. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The ways in that vale were very deep. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- A deep line of operations (Military), a long line.
- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deep'
From: GCIDE
- Deep \Deep\, n.
- 1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. [1913 Webster]
- Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
- The hollow deep of hell resounded. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss. [1913 Webster]
- Thy judgments are a great deep. --Ps. xxxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
- Deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night; dead of night. [1913 Webster]
- The deep of night is crept upon our talk. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deep'
From: GCIDE
- Deep \Deep\, adv. To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. [1913 Webster]
- Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut, deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, "deep-uddered kine." [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'DEEP'
From: Easton
- Deep used to denote (1) the grave or the abyss (Rom. 10:7; Luke 8:31); (2) the deepest part of the sea (Ps. 69:15); (3) the chaos mentioned in Gen. 1:2; (4) the bottomless pit, hell (Rev. 9:1, 2; 11:7; 20:13).
Synonyms of 'deep'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorbed,
- absorbing,
- abstract,
- abstracted,
- abstruse,
- abysm,
- abysmal,
- abyss,
- abyssal,
- abyssal zone,
- acute,
- ample,
- amplitudinous,
- ankle-deep,
- arcane,
- arch,
- ardent,
- artful,
- astute,
- at bottom,
- at the core,
- baritone,
- bass,
- Bassalia,
- bathyal zone,
- benthos,
- big drink,
- blue,
- blue water,
- booming,
- bottom waters,
- bottomless,
- bottomless depths,
- brine,
- briny,
- broad,
- broad-minded,
- cagey,
- canny,
- capacious,
- cavity,
- centered,
- central,
- chasm,
- civilized,
- clever,
- colored,
- commodious,
- complex,
- complicated,
- comprehensive,
- concealed,
- concentrated,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- contralto,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- crater,
- crevasse,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- cunning,
- cute,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deep-colored,
- deep-cut,
- deep-down,
- deep-echoing,
- deep-engraven,
- deep-felt,
- deep-fixed,
- deep-laid,
- deep-lying,
- deep-pitched,
- deep-reaching,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-settled,
- deep-sinking,
- deep-sunk,
- deep-sunken,
- deep-toned,
- deepgoing,
- deepish,
- deeply,
- deepmouthed,
- deepsome,
- depth,
- designing,
- devious,
- difficult,
- diplomatic,
- discerning,
- drink,
- dyed,
- earnest,
- earnestly,
- educated,
- encyclopedic,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- erudite,
- esoteric,
- exhaustive,
- expansive,
- extended,
- extending,
- extensive,
- far-reaching,
- feline,
- fervent,
- fixed,
- foxy,
- full,
- full-colored,
- grand,
- grave,
- great,
- ground,
- guileful,
- gulf,
- hard,
- heartfelt,
- heavily,
- heavy,
- hermetic,
- hidden,
- high sea,
- high seas,
- hole,
- hollow,
- homefelt,
- hued,
- hydrosphere,
- imbued,
- immersed,
- impenetrable,
- in color,
- in Technicolor,
- incomprehensible,
- indelible,
- indoor,
- infinite,
- ingenious,
- inmost,
- inner,
- inner space,
- innermost,
- inscrutable,
- inside,
- insidious,
- intense,
- intensely,
- intent,
- interior,
- internal,
- intestine,
- intimate,
- into,
- intricate,
- intriguing,
- intrinsic,
- inventive,
- involved,
- inward,
- irresistible,
- keen,
- knee-deep,
- knowing,
- knowledgeable,
- learned,
- lettered,
- literate,
- lost,
- low,
- low-pitched,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- main,
- main sea,
- maximum,
- mighty,
- mysterious,
- mystical,
- obscure,
- occult,
- occupied,
- ocean,
- ocean bottom,
- ocean depths,
- ocean floor,
- ocean main,
- ocean sea,
- pansophic,
- past comprehension,
- pawky,
- pelagic zone,
- penetrating,
- perspicacious,
- pervading,
- piercing,
- pit,
- plenary,
- plotting,
- poignant,
- politic,
- polyhistoric,
- polymath,
- polymathic,
- powerful,
- preoccupied,
- profound,
- profoundly,
- rapt,
- ready,
- recondite,
- resonant,
- resounding,
- resourceful,
- rich,
- roomy,
- rumbling,
- sagacious,
- sage,
- salt sea,
- salt water,
- sapient,
- scheming,
- scholarly,
- scholastic,
- sea,
- secret,
- sepulchral,
- serious,
- serpentine,
- set,
- shaft,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sincere,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sonorous,
- sophistical,
- spacious,
- spreading,
- stained,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- strong,
- studious,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- thalassa,
- the bounding main,
- the brine,
- the briny,
- the briny deep,
- the deep,
- the deep sea,
- the deeps,
- the depths,
- the seven seas,
- the vasty deep,
- tide,
- tinct,
- tinctured,
- tinged,
- tinted,
- toned,
- total,
- transcendental,
- trench,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unfathomable,
- vast,
- voluminous,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wash-colored,
- weighty,
- well,
- wide,
- widespread,
- wily,
- wise,
- wise as Solomon,
- wrapped,
- wrapped up,
- yawning,
- yawning abyss
Acronyms for 'DEEP'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Dynamical ExaScale Entry Platform (Europe)
Words containing 'DEEP'
- Deepness,
- deep down,
- Deep River,
- Deep mourning,
- Deep of night,
- ankle deep,
- bass deep,
- deep background,
- deep brown,
- deep dyed,
- deep fat,
- deep fording,
- deep freeze,
- deep freezer,
- deep fryer,
- deep in thought,
- deep kiss,
- deep pocket,
- deep pockets,
- deep red,
- deep rich,
- deep rooted,
- deep sea,
- deep seated,
- deep six,
- deep south,
- deep space,
- deep thought,
- deep water,
- go deep,
- knee deep,
- nares deep,
- skin deep,
- A deep line of operations,
- Breast-deep,
- Deep River Center,
- Deep River, IA,
- Deep-fet,
- Deep-laid,
- Deep-mouthed,
- Deep-read,
- Deep-sea,
- Deep-waisted,
- Knee-deep,
- Skin-deep,
- ankle-deep,
- deep cervical vein,
- deep supporting fire,
- deep temporal vein,
- deep-chested,
- deep-dye,
- deep-eyed,
- deep-freeze,
- deep-fried,
- deep-fry,
- deep-lobed,
- deep-mined,
- deep-pink,
- deep-rooted,
- deep-seated,
- deep-set,
- deep-six,
- deep-water,
- deep-yellow,
- give it the deep six,
- neck-deep,
- waist-deep,
- Deep River Center, CT,
- Deep-sea lead,
- Deep-water sculpin,
- deep middle cerebral vein,
- deep-dish pie,
- deep-fat-fry,
- deep-sea diver