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Antonyms for deep
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : deep |
| Phonetic Transcription : dip |
Definition of deep
Origin :- Old English deop "profound, awful, mysterious; serious, solemn; deepness, depth," deope (adv.), from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (cf. Old Saxon diop, Old Frisian diap, Dutch diep, Old High German tiof, German tief, Old Norse djupr, Danish dyb, Swedish djup, Gothic diups "deep"), from PIE *dheub- "deep, hollow" (cf. Lithuanian dubus "deep, hollow, Old Church Slavonic duno "bottom, foundation," Welsh dwfn "deep," Old Irish domun "world," via sense development from "bottom" to "foundation" to "earth" to "world").
- Figurative senses were in Old English; extended 16c. to color, sound. Deep pocket "wealth" is from 1951. To go off the deep end "lose control of oneself" is slang first recorded 1921, probably in reference to the deep end of a swimming pool, where a person on the surface can no longer touch bottom. When 3-D films seemed destined to be the next wave and the biggest thing to hit cinema since talkies, they were known as deepies (1953).
- adj extending very far, usually down
- adj abstract, complicated in meaning
- adj scheming, devious
- adj absorbed, engrossed in activity
- adj intense in effect on senses
- noun the sea
- Eudora took it with a deep blush, saying, "Aspasia gave it to me."
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Pericles seated himself near them, with deep sadness on his brow.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- During the whole of the ensuing day, Paralus continued in a deep sleep.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Percival had walked the floor in deep attention to the old man's words.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- "That old boy is all right yet," he said, with deep conviction.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He stood in deep shadow and the girl had been too absorbed in the play to note his coming.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He watched her, while she narrowed her eyes in deep thought.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Land of the sunshine, the deep blue sky, and snow-topped hills!
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- They were on the bank of a stream of some width, and apparently a deep and rapid one.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- This was a mere formality and it did not have any deep significance.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Synonyms for deep
- abstracted
- abstruse
- abysmal
- abyssal
- acute
- alto
- arcane
- artful
- astute
- baritone
- bass
- below
- beneath
- blue
- booming
- bottomless
- brine
- briny
- broad
- buried
- canny
- centered
- complex
- concealed
- concentrated
- contralto
- contriving
- crafty
- cunning
- dark
- Davy Jones's locker
- deep-seated
- Delphic
- designing
- difficult
- discerning
- distant
- downreaching
- drink
- enfolded
- engaged
- esoteric
- extreme
- far
- fathomless
- fixed
- focused
- foxy
- full-toned
- grave
- great
- guileful
- hard
- hard to understand
- heavy
- hermetic
- hidden
- immersed
- incisive
- inmost
- insidious
- intent
- into
- intricate
- intriguing
- keen
- knowing
- learned
- lost
- low
- low-pitched
- low-toned
- main
- middle
- musing
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- ocean
- orphic
- penetrating
- plotting
- Poseidon's realm
- preoccupied
- profound
- rapt
- recondite
- resonant
- rich
- rooted
- sagacious
- secret
- serious
- set
- sharp
- shrewd
- sibylline
- sly
- sonorous
- strong
- subaqueous
- submarine
- submerged
- subterranean
- sunk
- the high seas
- tricky
- underground
- unfathomable
- vivid
- wide
- wily
- wise
- wrapped
- wrapped up
- yawning
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