Main entry: deep
Definition: literary term for an ocean
Usage: denizens of the deep
Main entry: trench, oceanic abyss, deep
Definition: a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
Main entry: deep
Definition: the central and most intense or profound part
Usage: in the deep of night; in the deep of winter
Main entry: deep
Definition: exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
Usage: deep political machinations; a deep plot
Definition: strong; intense
Usage: deep purple; a rich red
Main entry: deep
Definition: very distant in time or space
Usage: deep in the past; deep in enemy territory; deep in the woods; a deep space probe
Main entry: deep
Definition: 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
Usage: 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
Main entry: deep
Definition: relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Usage: a deep breath; a deep sigh; deep concentration; deep emotion; a deep trance; in a deep sleep
Main entry: abstruse, recondite, deep
Definition: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Usage: the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them; a deep metaphysical theory; some recondite problem in historiography
Main entry: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, cryptic, cryptical, deep
Definition: of an obscure nature
Usage: 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
Main entry: deep
Definition: with head or back bent low
Usage: a deep bow
Definition: having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Usage: a deep voice; a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice; a bass clarinet
Main entry: deep
Definition: large in quantity or size
Usage: deep cuts in the budget
Main entry: deep
Definition: extreme
Usage: in deep trouble; deep happiness
Definition: (of darkness) very intense
Usage: thick night; thick darkness; a face in deep shadow; deep night
Main entry: deep
Definition: marked by depth of thinking
Usage: deep thoughts; a deep allegory
Main entry: deep
Definition: relatively thick from top to bottom
Usage: deep carpets; deep snow
Main entry: deep
Definition: extending relatively far inward
Usage: a deep border
Definition: to a great depth;far down
Usage: dived deeply; dug deep
Main entry: deep
Definition: to a great distance
Usage: penetrated deep into enemy territory; went deep into the woods
Definition: to an advanced time
Usage: deep into the night; talked late into the evening