profoundly

[ US /pɹoʊˈfaʊndɫi/ ]
[ UK /pɹəfˈa‍ʊndli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. to a great depth psychologically or emotionally
    she loved him intensely
    They felt the loss deeply
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How To Use profoundly In A Sentence

  • Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss. The First Man in Rome
  • Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
  • Modern scientific capability has profoundly altered the course of human life. Times, Sunday Times
  • The art world can be a profoundly unfriendly and unbalanced place. Times, Sunday Times
  • I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary. Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
  • Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
  • It has profoundly negative connotations. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid. Excommunicated from the Ummah?
  • I love contemplative first person narratives, in which nothing happens and yet everything of significance is profoundly altered. Molly Fox’s Birthday « Tales from the Reading Room
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