Synonyms for deeper
| Grammar : Adj, adv |
| Spell : deep |
| Phonetic Transcription : dip |
Top 10 synonyms for deeper Other synonyms for the word deeper
- abstracted
- abstruse
- abysmal
- abyssal
- affectingly
- alto
- arcane
- artful
- astute
- baritone
- bass
- below
- beneath
- booming
- bottomless
- canny
- centered
- concealed
- concentrated
- contralto
- contriving
- crafty
- cunning
- Delphic
- designing
- discerning
- distant
- distressingly
- downreaching
- enfolded
- engaged
- esoteric
- fathomless
- feelingly
- fixed
- focused
- foxy
- full-toned
- genuinely
- grave
- gravely
- great
- guileful
- hard
- hard to understand
- heavy
- hermetic
- hidden
- immersed
- incisive
- inmost
- insidious
- intensely
- intent
- into
- intricate
- intriguing
- keen
- knowing
- learned
- lost
- low
- low-pitched
- low-toned
- mournfully
- movingly
- musing
- mysterious
- obscure
- occult
- orphic
- passionately
- penetrating
- plotting
- preoccupied
- profound
- profoundly
- rapt
- recondite
- resonant
- rich
- rooted
- sadly
- sagacious
- secret
- serious
- seriously
- set
- severely
- sharp
- shrewd
- sibylline
- sly
- sonorous
- strong
- subaqueous
- submarine
- submerged
- subterranean
- sunk
- surely
- thoroughly
- to the quick
- tricky
- underground
- unfathomable
- vivid
- wide
- wily
- wise
- wrapped
- wrapped up
- yawning
Définition of deeper
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
- adv completely, intensely
- Cut deeper; the knife is too short: deeper, mia brave Corneliolina!
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- "Perhaps your faith in the ideal is deeper than you are aware," said my friend.
- Extract from : « The Hall of Fantasy (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A new Dick appeared to him, a personality stronger, deeper than he could have imagined.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Then there is a seeming silence, but it is the silence of a deeper sound.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- Never did a pilgrim approach Niagara with deeper enthusiasm than mine.
- Extract from : « Other Tales and Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He was nevertheless a fool, also, only of another and deeper sort.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- In later dramas we shall find that he grows to deeper self-knowledge.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Others have been saved before now from calamities yet deeper than ours.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- It always flatters a man to realize that he is deeper than he thought.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
Antonyms for deeper
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