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								showing intellectual penetration or emotional depths; from the depths of your being the differences are profound
 a profound insight
 a profound book
 a profound mind
 profound contempt
 profound regret
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								of the greatest intensity; complete
 a profound silence
 a state of profound shock
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								far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
 profound social changes
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								coming from deep within one
 a profound sigh
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								(of sleep) deep and complete
 fell into a profound sleep
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								situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
 the profound depths of the sea
 
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			| 1. Profound / Comparitive profounder
 2. Profound / Superlative
 profoundest
 
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