How to use "profound" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "profound" in popular movie and book plots

• At its heart is the profound bond forged between Stroman and the Israeli-born filmmaker Ilan Ziv.  - An Eye for an Eye (2016 film)
• Bonded by a profound brotherhood and tormented by tragic events, two men; Ira Berenger and Ashley Hollis, fight for salvation and moral justice in post-Civil War America.  - Guns of Purgatory (2016 film)
• Katrina wreaked profound devastation, The same fate awaits a new coastal nation… The Gateway floods when autonomy fails, The torrent erases the Dutch king’s trail.  - Mission Hurricane
• This show is a playful but profound play on how we view life and death, from a child's perspective.  - Before Your Very Eyes
• Born as a slave but with the remarkable talent and the profound passion for astronomy, he was known by King Sejong (Kim Sang-kyung) and was recommended to the court.  - Jang Yeong-sil (TV series)
• Einstein reveals that she had given Mulder a placebo, despite Mulder's objections considering his powerful and profound experience.  - Babylon (The X-Files)
• More than 40 players, nearly the entire team, black and white, give their lives over to Jesus Christ and the spiritual change has a profound effect on the coach, the school and the community.  - Woodlawn (film)
• They usually leave home to escape their current live and meet with many adventure that have a profound impact not only on the lives but also on those they came across during their travel.  - Madras to Pondicherry
• The final scene (the palace and the entire city of Knossos are being burnt) is equally dramatical with a tragedy (containing profound connections with ancient Greek tragedy), Daedalus and his son Icarus will escape flying with artificial wings (like the homonymous legend).  - Daedalus in Crete
• Julia takes the stranger to her house where she lives with her father and a profound love develops between them.  - Julia (Venezuelan telenovela)
• It took them some time but finally they’ve managed to create an AI so profound that it develop free will.  - Nemexia (game)
• The compass had a profound impact on his life.  - I Am Albert Einstein
• When his wife finally succumbs to her disease, Oh becomes conflicted over his profound grief and newfound passion.  - Revivre
• Ngok and Hon has worked for triad boss Dick (Dick Wei) for over ten years and the two have established a profound friendship.  - Bullet for Hire
• This pushes Ernesto into a profound awareness: he must choose the values of liberation rather than economic security.  - Deep Rivers
• Ramanujan's health worsens while he continues delving into deeper and more profound research interests in mathematics under the guidance of Hardy and others at Cambridge.  - The Man Who Knew Infinity (film)
• Afterward, Miguel dismisses her feelings of guilt and proclaims himself to have a more developed and profound sense of guilt.  - Madrid, 1987
• The death of Danica's husband at the hands of the Albanians has left profound traces in the family.  - My Beautiful Country
• Porius gains maturity, and with it personal freedom, through a number of significant experiences, including especially this encounter with the aboriginal giants of Wales, as well as the profound influence of the magician, prophet, and possibly the god Chronos/Saturn, Myrddin, who reinforces the values, and develops on, the teachings of Porius's earlier teacher, the Christian heretic Pelagius.  - Porius: A Romance of the Dark Ages
• The two cops from different environment were incompatible working together at first, but they gradually produced a profound friendship and they work together to shatter the terrorists' attempt to create an explosion and wounded Hannibal (Vernon Wells), the leader of the organization.  - Undeclared War
• There are obstacles along the way, too, including Maddie Van Pelt, the leader of the Panthers, a trio of the school's most popular girls, who is a newly profound witch and Daniel's ex-girlfriend, and the principal, Miss Torres: she is a 400-year-old witch and the old Chosen One, too, but she's malicious.  - Every Witch Way
• His profound sense of observation leads him into trouble when stumbling onto the wrong place at the wrong time (which proves an arbitrary habit for Jimmy), as he must testify in a pivotal trial what he bore witness to.  - Jimmy (2013 film)
• Zarina promises not to tamper and experiment with pixie dust again, but is convinced by Tink to show off her astoundingly profound pixie dust abilities one last time.  - The Pirate Fairy
• Under Miko's attentive treatment, Wai-leung heals and they establish a profound friendship.  - Close Escape
• This has a profound influence on Benjamin and two years later he is the leader of a group graduating from the village to establish a new settlement.  - Adamah (film)
• These extraterrestrials had a profound effect on the creation of human life and the founding of civilization, after which they left mankind to evolve on its own with a promise they would return at a future date.  - The Outer Space Connection
• The ensuing frantic search for Denny sends Scott into a profound life-changing journey that forces him to examine his own priorities and determine what's truly important in his life.  - Sedona (film)
• The last two cases also had a very profound impact on one of the members of the Tracing Department.  - Missing You (Hong Kong TV series)
• Although she still believes in the values of social equality and cooperation that characterized the kibbutz in its early years, Hanna struggles to maintain her usefulness and sense of worth in a society undergoing a sudden and profound transformation.  - A Beautiful Valley
• Raymond has had friction with the judge and prosecutor (Paul Chun), and with profound grievances, it was a disadvantage for him to defend his mother.  - The Truth (1988 film)
• In the other, a shell-shocked flyer whose doctor has prescribed "a profound experience" recovers the will to fight when he hears "Siegfried's Rhine Journey" during a performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival.  - Stukas (film)
• The story makes clear that although they are identical twins, they possess profound psychological differences – Peter, the elder by several minutes, is presented as a healthy child with an intensively protective attitude towards his impaired brother, while Francis is depicted as being challenged by an intense anxiety disorder.  - The End of the Party (short story)
• He recognizes the profound relationship between the siblings and understands Lilli's realm of feelings better and better.  - A Year Ago in Winter
• It is a deception because the woman is arrested for forcing son to Catholic dune profound conversion, which should end with a beatification premature,e.  - Tutto tutto niente niente
• The Prepper, now aware of what the player was doing behind his back, expresses his profound disappointment in the player as he returns to Buckingham Palace.  - ZombiU
• mrs Hazen's reaction is so profound – the blood leaves her face faster than Archie has ever seen – that Archie is convinced of her innocence.  - Death of a Demon
• He also experiments with LSD, which has a profound impact on him and his own marriage to Jane; under the influence of the drug the two confess that their marriage has failed and they divorce.  - Mad Men (season 5)
• Adams asks Chase about his waxing and he says there's nothing more profound than him being vain and shallow.  - Dead & Buried (House)
• One day Bappa Rawal met Maharshi Harti Rashi (a sage) and by the profound blessings of the sage Harit Rashi, Bappa established the Great kingdom of Mewar.  - Maharana Pratap: The First Freedom Fighter
• What he saw was a profound nexus of police, bureaucrats, power-brokers, and politicians - all hidden by the glittering curtain of "Rule of Law" and administrative sophistication.  - Kya Yahi Sach Hai
• An interesting aside is that the parents of the dead child live with the maternal grandmother, Lilian, an acerbic hag engaged in a never ending battle with her 'Neighbour from Hell' Kaj, who has built a new domicile next door to her profound chagrin; Kaj has a reclusive autistic son, Morgan, who spends many hours isolated in his room working on his computer; the finger of suspicion begins to point to him as the possible murderer, particularly as he had seen and spoken to the child on the fatal day they died.  - The Stone Cutter
• As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.  - Parade's End (TV series)
• Two young adventurers, Shan Mullins and Genera Juantez are searching for parts of a mysterious golden tablet, which brings to light evidence that ancient astronauts from another world visited Earth in ancient times and had a profound effect on the technological advancement of the human race.  - Search for the Gods
• Lisamarie reflects on profound events in her life, as she waits on news of her brother.  - Monkey Beach
• In December, Juanita takes the girls and leaves for a week—it has a deep and profound effect on Darrel.  - The Farmer's Wife (1998 film)
• These women all have profound effects on Barthes' life, forcing him to both re-discover aspects of his own personality, and to come to terms with both the tragic suicide of his mother and the impending death of his grandfather.  - Detachment (film)
• Elena arrives at the big house and almost immediately has a profound effect on Juanito and little by little Juan Alberto begins to see a change in his son and realizes that it's all thanks to Elena.  - Vivo Por Elena
• Todd ends up imprisoned in solitary confinement in Weilberg, Germany and sinks into a profound depression until he befriends a German guard, Karl-Heinz, who, in return for kisses, smuggles him torn out pages of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Les Confessions.  - The New Confessions
• The loss of Plovdiv did not seem to have had a profound effect on Ivan's career, and he remained a royal favourite.  - Ivan the Russian
• Sammy and Petra have both embraced the materialistic culture, and it takes considerable persuasion from Fred and Jesus (including a memorable speech where Jesus makes numerous profound points, ending each one with 'That's all I got to say', before launching into another ramble) before they will agree to help.  - Rude Awakening (film)
• However, much to their surprise, readers actually find it an even deeper, more profound book, and continue making up their own allegorical messages into the text.  - The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
• The event has such profound effect on the town that the local priest invites the bishop of Armenia to determine the religious nature of what has taken place.  - Miracle in Rome
• Reading her story, the doctor discovers a profound bond between his experiences of solitude and those recounted by the poet in her tattooed words.  - Anaphylaxis (film)
• Hortense remembers her life in Jamaica and the profound love she had for Michael.  - Small Island (TV film)
• Speculating that small changes in history might have profound consequences on the present day world, scientist Sherman Weaver appropriates a prototype time machine to project himself back to the era of Philip II of Macedon.  - Aristotle and the Gun
• His weak attempts at portraying Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington,C, lead to poor reviews, sending Axler into a profound depression and causing him to give up acting and contemplate suicide with a shotgun he keeps in his attic.  - The Humbling
• It gradually becomes clear that Edith has profound emotional problems.  - Stoner (novel)
• Although these events, as a background to the ancient patterns of the struggle for survival in Wali are almost inconsequential, they also have profound repercussions.  - The Ancient Ship
• His words earn him profound respect from the masters, especially from Wang.  - The Legend of Bruce Lee
• The author is troubled "by my uneasy sense of profound moral differences".  - In the Days of the Comet
• To neutralize Khalil, they first kidnap (and later kill) his brother who's on a lecture tour speaking to audiences in a ski mask about the profound suffering and losses of the Palestine under military occupation.  - The Little Drummer Girl (film)
• Although the work presented by Taghvā'i certainly qualifies as a surrealist art-form, this motionless pendulum serves as a more profound tool than a means that solely hints at surrealism.  - Unruled Paper (film)
• The biographer now realizes the profound role that Hannah played in Ethan's life and success, and in the founding of this now great city.  - The Great Man's Lady
• The Parson confronts social and professional ruin for his apparent sexual misconduct; even when the trick is revealed, he risks profound embarrassment over its possible exposure.  - The Parson's Wedding
• Starting with that meeting, Harry, traveling with his girlfriend Plum (Sophie Guillemin), becomes obsessed with Michel and Claire and begins to have a profound and damaging effect on the young couple.  - Harry, He's Here to Help
• "Watson weaves Christian myth, native legend and natural symbol into a profound prose poem".  - The Double Hook
• The narrator describes him as profound and a man of genius, as even the man's cat knew.  - Bon-Bon (short story)
• The journey has its most profound effects upon the iconoclastic salesman and the lonely stripper.  - The Wayward Bus (film)
• As she fills a profound psychological need of his, Bothari kills Vorrutyer before he can do anything.  - Shards of Honor
• He renews his undying love for her and assures her that his mysterious reserve was merely the result of his profound meditation on a scheme for the regeneration of society.  - Nightmare Abbey
• They are on the point of splitting up, and eventually Ann and Giulia form a profound relationship and live together in the Villa Amalia, and Lena lives with them when Leonhardt's work means that he cannot look after her.  - Villa Amalia (novel)
• She is grieved to see how losing her has had a profound effect on Michael.  - Redeeming Love
• The Theomach guides Linden through this meeting, mindful that their presence in this time could have a profound effect on the Law of Time.  - Fatal Revenant
• Christopher is portrayed as initially ignorant of his true identity, leading to an emotional conflict between the protagonists to reconcile their mutual love and attraction with what they believe to be the profound disparity in their social status and shame of their forced marriage.  - Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
• His uneasiness is so profound that he wants his family to return with him to Earth.  - Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
• The three strangers live along the 1/9 subway line and two of them connect in a profound way.  - Adrift in Manhattan
• Furthermore, when the Joker and Penguin threaten to reveal the location of the Batcave, which obviously would betray the Batman and Robin's secret identities, Batman reminds them to their profound chagrin that they've seen only the cave's interior and not its exterior so they have no idea of its location.  - The Penguin Declines
• Zano is meant to be brooding and profound to the point of being sulky, and world-hating and Naima wildly passionate to the point of appearing wanton and unstable; and both far too self-absorbed to care about either one or the other.  - Exils
• His stories of his travels have a profound effect on his nephew Bibi, who is having trouble at school and going through an especially rough puberty, inspiring the boy to want to live life to the fullest.  - The Happy Time (musical)
• Alice (Uphill) takes a profound interest in the murders as her own son, Daniel, was killed years ago and she is haunted by recurring nightmares.  - Hellbreeder
• Arthur Lane is a young boy with profound cerebral palsy, who is unable to walk, talk, feed himself, or sit unsupported.  - Skallagrigg
• The title character is the play's main comic relief: an otherwise-unnamed lieutenant who is capable of fighting ferociously in battle but is a profound hypochondriac the rest of the time.  - The Humorous Lieutenant
• Several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each other's in small but sometimes profound ways.  - The Blue Hour (2007 film)
• The pupils are silenced by his story: he has come to terms with his past during the trip, as well as opening up to his colleagues and pupils about the events which had had a profound effect on his life.  - Mr. Harvey Lights a Candle
• At its core is Lara Guishar Antipova, a young woman from Moscow who has a profound effect on three men who become enamored with her.  - Doctor Zhivago (miniseries)
• It exposes the devastating effects capitalism and international companies had on the lives of Guatemalan maize growers, having a profound effect on their customs, ancestral beliefs and cultural identity.  - Men of Maize
• Gumby fails to understand the profound effect of George Pal on Arnie's persona, so Arnie and Pokey show Gumby a set of George Pal shorts to show him the significance of the artist, thus starting The Puppetoon Movie.  - The Puppetoon Movie
• One young boy, left alone on the stage, sings about profound alienation.  - A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
• Ali's soon finds herself caught in a double-edged scenario, as she realizes her father has a powerful and profound effect on her son.  - Cages
• Justifying Sciama's faith in him, he produces a PhD of real brilliance and profound implications.  - Hawking (2004 film)
• Please… my feelings… My feelings have undergone so material a change since that unfortunate day last spring that I can only receive with sincere gratitude and the most profound pleasure your assurances that yours continue the same.  - Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
• But the story is more profound and is considered a major psychological drama.  - Lucien Brouillard
• The two men, seemingly opposites in every way, form an intimate bond in their cell, and their relationship changes both of them in profound ways.  - Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel)
• Dieter follows Hitler through Austria, charting his development and taking a more active role as Hitler discovers wargames around the age of five, and witnesses the beating of the family dog which has a profound effect on him.  - The Castle in the Forest
• Eventually, Herman and Snively are forgiven, invited to the Christmas celebrations and they have a profound change of heart at such generosity of spirit.  - Yogi's First Christmas
• To his profound shock, Spaulding discovers that the people trying to stop him work for the Haganah, a Jewish para-military organization set on stopping the exchange.  - The Rhinemann Exchange
• He and Hazel appear to mend their fences after some rocky times in their relationship, with James expressing profound gratitude at being surrounded by "good care and attention, and love".  - Missing Believed Killed
• Kitty has undergone a profound personal transformation.  - The Painted Veil (novel)
• Christmas Eve, "the night of profound love".  - Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (film)
• However, the content of her entries becomes more and more revealing over time, and readers are able to better understand Marina's world: how her friends, teachers and create profound and lasting impressions on her psyche.  - So Much to Tell You
• The central character of the novel is Jim Saddler, a self-contained young man with a profound understanding of the bird life of an estuary near his home.  - Fly Away Peter
• In spite of this, Miles and Kate get married while he's still in isolation, but his time on Venus and the strange creatures he encountered there have had a profound change on Miles.  - The Joining (The Outer Limits)
• The advent of the bicycle stirred sudden and profound changes in the social life of England.  - The Wheels of Chance
• This experience has profound effects on all four of them.  - Jumper (novel)
• Tim destroys the trucks filled with pods with the helicopter's rockets, while Marti confesses her profound hatred in a voice-over narration, thereby hinting at a loss of humanitarian quality.  - Body Snatchers (1993 film)
• In profound frustration at this, after Mary is gone Gabbo punches Otto in the face, but immediately apologizes and embraces the dummy, weeping.  - The Great Gabbo
• During his stay, the two become friends, and Reza Marmoulak overcomes his dislike of the Islamic clergy to accept the mullah after he is told a profound statement which stays with him for the rest of the film - "There are as many ways to reach God as there are people in the world".  - The Lizard (film)
• As night falls, Rod wakes from a profound nightmare to see the mummer walking up to Glastonbury Tor, and he follows, knowing that it'll be the last thing he ever does.  - Rags (novel)
• But La Garza’s last affair, with Jairo, marks a profound change in the story, as Dimas, the previous lover, doesn’t accept the loss of everything.  - El Pez que Fuma
• The Earth explorers, particularly the astrophysicist-priest, were deeply moved by these artifacts, and they found themselves identifying closely with the dead race's peaceful, human-like culture and the profound grace they exhibited in the face of their cruel fate.  - The Star (Clarke short story)
• In what would turn out to have a profound influence on his later life, Harinxma works with a sensitive young Canadian liaison officer posted to his ship, who quixotically dies in a futile attempt to shield an injured kitten from an attacking German plane.  - The Captain (novel)
• (In another scene, when ghalib is reciting out of court, even the general populace thinks his ghazals are too profound and his Urdu too difficult) In the more intellectual environment of the mushaira, nobody except the Mufti (Murad) and the Kotwal, Hashmat Khan (Ulhas) can find anything to appreciate in Ghalib's poetry.  - Mirza Ghalib (film)
• In due course Festina meets an old flame (a cross between a schoolgirl crush and the love of her life), who reveals himself to be a profound danger instead of a welcome ally.  - Expendable
• Their parents, Colleen and Wendal, love their family but have profound complications within their own relationship.  - Sons & Daughters (2006 TV series)
• Alongside his romantic longings, Harrison realises that closing the site will have a profound impact on the village's school (which only stays open because Eilidh pretends she cares for the children of the 300 site staff).  - All Along the Watchtower (TV series)
• To his profound embarrassment, she turns out to be the same sort of crook as he; she and her father "Lord Fryingham" (William Orlamond) rob him, but let him live.  - Souls for Sale
• The two start a profound and subtly homoerotic friendship.  - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
• In this extremely modern Secretum where there is no Saint Augustine to indicate, with the profound voice of conscience, the absolute truth to desire, where desperation is entrusted to a bitter humorism, corrosive and salvific at the same time, the unity of the self disintegrates into diverse stratifications.  - One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
• The captivity, the tiring journey, and the rotting corpse slowly take a profound psychological toll on Norton.  - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
• In her time of greatest need, she learns that human compassion is of more profound importance than intellectual wit.  - Wit (film)
• Hlynur's confusion over the whole situation is expressed in his rather profound and imaginative musings: There they are.  - 101 Reykjavík
• At the same time, Robert and his granddaughter Miri are drawn into a complex plot involving a traitorous intelligence officer, an intellect of frightening (and possibly superhuman) competence hiding behind an avatar of an anthropomorphic rabbit, and ominous new mind control technology with profound implications.  - Rainbows End
• Hagan has somehow survived, but he has been shaken by the experience and is in a profound catatonic state.  - Night Terrors (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• The Schlegel sisters drift apart, partly because of Margaret's impending marriage into the Wilcox family, partly because of Helen's profound disapproval of Henry's treatment of the Basts.  - Howards End
• He lies down on the hotel bed, showing no anger or pain, only a profound weariness, as police sirens can be heard in the distance.  - Light Sleeper
• He is further alienated by his "habit of incessant reflection", his feeling that the experiences and actions of his life have so far taken place without his free assent, and a profound conviction that there must be more to life, some meaning and justification which have hitherto eluded him.  - The Outsider (Wright novel)
• Robert later makes an effort to discourage Rocky from fighting, blaming his own personal failings on his father's celebrity shadow, but Rocky rebukes him with some profound advice; that to succeed in life, "it ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward", and that blaming others won't help him.  - Rocky Balboa (film)
• The dwarf is a profound misanthrope and generally embodies all things evil.  - The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel)
• Cage soon realizes that these two cases are inextricably linked, and have much more profound implications than he imagined.  - The Quiet Game
• Hashi, whose voice has a profound effect on those who hear it, becomes a bisexual rock star, employed by an eccentric producer named Hashi falls in love with his (female) manager Neva and they marry.  - Coin Locker Babies
• Before he can eat Tweety, however, he is interrupted by a crimson, erudite, milquetoast cat (named "Clarence" or "Sam" in some sources but unnamed in the short itself), who tells him that his constant cravings for Tweety are a sign of profound personal weakness, and that the only way for him to overcome this weakness is to kick the habit for good.  - Birds Anonymous
• Lack of any profound essence and ambiguity as a general attitude to life are his principal characteristics.  - The Man Without Qualities
• She imagines that other future, "full of infidelities and great battles; as a vast and enduring romance laid over friendship so searing and profound it would accompany them to the grave.  - The Hours (novel)
• Nevertheless, the encounter with Coppola has had a profound effect on Nathanael, driving him toward a gloomy mysticism which bores Klara and leads to their gradual estrangement.  - The Sandman (short story)
• Talia soon becomes pregnant, and the prospect of a family has a profound effect on Batman's demeanor, making him more risk-averse and softening his typically grim outlook.  - Batman: Son of the Demon
• He takes his revenge on the tavern owner Aram Baksh by cutting out his tongue and shearing off his beard to render him mute and unrecognizable, and turning him over to the hungry cannibals to devour - one of the most profound displays of Conan's ironic sense of humor - and leaves the city with gold and the magic ring that started the night's intrigues (and which Conan had stolen from the mad Jungir on their first encounter), with the intent to sell it to another interested party.  - Shadows in Zamboula
• The two have a profound effect on each other, with Lion becoming more of an adult and Max loosening up his high-strung aggression (at one point doing a tongue-in-cheek striptease to defuse a fight at a bar).  - Scarecrow (1973 film)
• They both understand something profound and unsettling about what they've experienced, but Raffaella is unwilling to abandon the society of privilege that has such a strong hold on her.  - Swept Away (1974 film)
• The words are different from the poem in a way that makes them more applicable to the story and gives a more profound sense of closure: "In that book, which is my memory, on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you appear the words, 'here begins a new life'".  - Latent Image (Star Trek: Voyager)
• And this act has profound consequences for Alexander (and his family), as it is the impetus for the KQV storyline.  - King's Quest V
• Burns also grows even richer, but in the process becomes a Howard Hughes-type hermit, developing a profound fear of microscopic germs, urinates in jars, and wears tissue boxes instead of shoes.  - $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
• Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy's life.  - Old Yeller (film)
• Duncan is beset with a profound sense of grief while trying to reconcile himself to a world in which he is a sexual alien.  - The Mudge Boy
• As he progresses, he learns profound truths about the nature of life, consciousness, and reality.  - Little Buddha
• Eventually Amy and Milvain marry; however, as the narrator reveals, this marriage motivated by circumstances is not lacking in more profound areas.  - New Grub Street
• The two engage in the stunt together, and it has a profound effect on Nick, who thanks Russell.  - Pushing Tin
• Rawlings realizes her profound attachment to the land at Cross Creek.  - Cross Creek (film)
• He finds in this fact a profound affirmation of life.  - The Dead (short story)
• The professor, who Picard said is "like the father who understood me", states that he has come across something in his travels which could be the most profound discovery of their time.  - The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Galinda is wracked with guilt over Ama Clutch's condition, the murder has the most profound impact on her.  - Wicked (Maguire novel)
• Similar to the previous story in Chapter 14, there is an expository chapter in which Douglas and Tom record the story in Douglas' tablet and provide both casual and profound commentary on its implications.  - Dandelion Wine
• With the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series.  - Dune (franchise)
• While there, he discovers that his cold and distant father, now deceased, carried a quiet and profound affection towards him.  - Praying with Anger
• Leela, on the other hand, goes to a preschool where Krishna gets to meet the headmaster, a profound man who cared for the students in his school and teaches them moral values through his own methods.  - The English Teacher
• Acres goes along, and writes out a challenge note – despite his own rather more pacifist feelings, and the profound misgivings of his servant David.  - The Rivals
• Joining in their conversation is a civil servant named Lebedyev – an "omniscient" gentleman with a profound knowledge of social trivia and gossip.  - The Idiot
• She fires him, but her profound disappointment is the worst punishment of all.  - Everwood
• One of the most profound changes was to the character of Minako Aino, who, rather than being an ordinary girl among the other Sailor Guardians, is a famous pop idol.  - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live-action series)
• He is forced to see the truth about the chaos and discord rumbling beneath the "American pastoral," which has brought about profound personal and societal changes he no longer can ignore.  - American Pastoral
• The beginning of the novel introduces the Music Master, the resident of Castalia who recruits Knecht as a young student and who is to have the most long-lasting and profound effect on Knecht throughout his life.  - The Glass Bead Game
• No one else who ate the curried mutton made at the Strakers' house that evening suffered any ill effects, but Hunter was in a profound stupor well into the next day.  - The Adventure of Silver Blaze
• In the ultimate experiment, Edward experiences a more profound regression, transforming into an amorphous mass of conscious, primordial matter.  - Altered States
• Watson is amazed by Holmes, who has profound knowledge of chemistry and sensational literature, very precise but narrow knowledge of geology and botany; yet knows little about literature, astronomy, philosophy, and politics.  - A Study in Scarlet
• A devout Catholic himself, according to this last note he comforts himself in an atheist world with the thought that profound hatred of religion means that people still believe God exists, otherwise they would not hate him so.  - Riders of the Purple Wage
• They also share a profound knowledge of cars and mechanics.  - Quack Pack
• The two have an immediate and profound effect on one another; Frank is impressed by Susan's verve and earnestness and is forced to re-examine his attitudes and position in life; Susan finds Frank's tutelage opens doors to a bohemian lifestyle and a new self-confidence.  - Educating Rita
• As Russell's character infiltrates the transnat terraforming project, the newly evolving Martian biosphere is described at great length and with more profound changes most aimed at warming up the surface of Mars to the brink of making it habitable, from continent sized orbital mirrors, another space elevator built (using another anchored asteroid that is dubbed "New Clarke"), to melting the northern polar ice cap, and digging moholes deep enough to form volcanoes.  - Mars trilogy
• As the column disappears, Rodricks experiences a profound sense of emptiness when the Overlords have gone.  - Childhood's End
• By sharing a glass of water with him, she inadvertently becomes his first female "water brother", considered a profound relationship by the Martians.  - Stranger in a Strange Land

Example sentences for "profound" in interesting articles

• That could usher in profound economic changes, with some supporters imagining him as India's answer to Margaret Thatcher.He will try to replicate his success in attracting investment and building infrastructure in Gujarat, the state he has governed for more than 12 years. "He can afford to have a smaller but stronger cabinet, that means a far more decisive government.  - India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
• I spoke with a man who runs a software company and he told me that there were several profound reasons that the local IT industry was still stagnant. First, revenues from software made by Indian companies is taxed while export revenues are tax-exempt.  - India (2002)
• I now have a new profound respect for a company that treats their customers with such class. LikeLike Reply Mike T — March 18, 2014 at 6:48 pm I’ve been struggling to get a new biz off the ground for a year or so, and now since reading this post I think I’ve got a fresh idea about how to approach customer service.  - The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote
• I listened to a cabal of people who sit on national education committees that will have a profound impact on classroom teaching practices.  - A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
• And, Lowood says, this would be a profound loss for historians. A historian who only had an out-of-the-box copy of Civilization II would never know, for example, that a young man named James Moore found the game’s simulation of future warfare so compelling that he played through it for ten rather difficult years.  - Player stuck in an eternal Civ II war
• For example, as much as Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a profound meditation on the corruption of power, its discussion of war and peace is crudely Manichean.  - Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams
• This may have been appropriate in our early ancestors, when being isolated from the group carried big physical risks, but for us the outcome is mostly harmful.Yet some of the most profound effects of loneliness are on the mind.  - How extreme isolation warps the mind
• Because we don't know how to make a wheel that is still generally useful for legitimate wheel applications but useless to bad guys. And we can all see that the general benefits of wheels are so profound that we'd be foolish to risk them in a foolish errand to stop bank robberies by changing wheels.  - The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
• How many startups would be doing better now if all their early people still had to work there for a big payday? The broader trend of generally increasing pay, at least for young engineers, has had even more profound consequences on Silicon Valley’s culture.  - Searching For Beasts In Silicon Valleys War For Talent
• He knew nothing else about them: not their names, not their thoughts, not the thousand mundane and profound details of their lives. He was told that they were carrying rifles on their shoulders, but for all he knew, they were shepherd’s staffs.  - Confessions of a Drone Warrior
• We can all see that the general benefits of wheels are so profound that we'd be foolish to risk changing them in a foolish errand to stop bank robberies.  - Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing
• "A simple policy signed by the secretary of defense — a one- or two-page memo, saying we will no longer build anything other than energy-efficient structures in Iraq and Afghanistan — would have a profound impact." CLARIFICATION: The Pentagon disputes the calculation made by Anderson about air conditioning costs.  - Among the costs of war: $20 Billion in Air Conditioning
• This will be a profound change for Google and the entire high-tech industry. Definitions and Examples Peacetime in business means those times when a company has a large advantage vs.  - Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
• Bizarre that a Taste Test with hype could divide people and business with such a profound impact, amazing… prudychick Posted 20 June 2008 at 07:27 pm nona said: “Has anyone tried Coke Zero? (The drink for men who want to diet, but are too manly to drink Diet Coke).To me, that tastes almost exactly like Pepsi.  - How Coca-Cola won the war
• Thanks to Andrew for opening up and giving us a look into what has made him such a profound success.  - The Andrew Warner Story
• This may have been appropriate in our early ancestors, when being isolated from the group carried big physical risks, but for us the outcome is mostly harmful.Yet some of the most profound effects of loneliness are on the mind.  - How extreme isolation warps the mind
• The data imply that males are, on average, at a rather profound disadvantage in the performance of this basic skill." They went on to warn, The generally larger numbers of males who perform near the bottom of the distribution in reading comprehension and writing also have policy implications.  - The War Against Boys
• It was here that I made profound relationships with my colleagues and continued my education on a daily basis, always learning something new to enhance my performance and care as a critical care nurse. From here, I was accepted and attended Gonzaga university and completed a graduate degree as a ARNP.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
• “In the most profound treachery and sustained exploitation of friendship, trust and confidence, Hoefler accepted all the benefits provided by Frere-Jones while repeatedly promising Frere-Jones that he would give him the agreed equity, only to refuse to do so when finally demanded,” the complaint charges.  - Font War: Inside the Design World's $20M Divorce
• If this was not an automated take down notice, it would indicate a more profound problem. Does a letter or notice from a lawyer have the force of law? Just receiving a letter claiming their belief in infringement does not constitute proof of infringement.  - Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation
• But the record-low sea ice extent and unprecedented warmth in the region fit in well with recent trends and portend even more profound changes in the coming years.  - The North Pole is 36 degrees warmer than normal
• "We now know that international efforts such as the Montreal Protocol have also had a profound effect on global warming but they must be placed on firmer scientific ground." "This study underlines the importance of understanding the basic science underlying ozone depletion and global climate change," said Terry McMahon, dean of the faculty of science.  - Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says
• That is such a profound transformation that we borrow this metaphor from physics and call it a singularity. Can AI become superior to human intelligence? Will it threaten humanity as feared by many? I would point out that we are not talking about an invasion of intelligent machines from Mars.  - Ray Kurzweil: "By 2029, computers will match human intelligence"
• I listened to a cabal of people who sit on national education committees that will have a profound impact on classroom teaching practices.  - A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
• According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, these initiatives solely target Muslims in each of these cities.Muslim communities and human rights campaigners have raised profound concerns about civil rights violations.  - The FBI has a new plan to spy on high school kids across the country
• “ ‘Summerhill’ had a profound effect on me,” my mother recalled, “because until then I had never questioned traditional education at all.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Her curiosity piqued, she picked up “How Children Learn” (first published in 1967) by the educator John Holt.  - My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (2011)
• public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.  - Majority of U.S. public school students are eligible for federal food program
• As a result, you feel like you know (comparatively) less. We could have a full talk on just this one syndrome, but suffice it to say that it's important to have a reasonably realistic understanding of what you know and what you don't know. Dunning-Kruger and Impostor Syndrome are entirely fascinating and have profound impact on how you approach your work, your peers.  - Things They Don't Teach You in School
• There, one learns that skipping a Russian-language class, making an ill-considered comment at the student union or exhibiting a persistent lack of the "proletarian point of view" can all lead to ex-matriculation – which had profound consequences for a lifetime.FDJ collectives compiled reports on secondary school students, which were then used when it came time to assign jobs and spots at university.  - East Germany thrived on snitching lovers, fickle friends and envious schoolkids
• It was here that I made profound relationships with my colleagues and continued my education on a daily basis, always learning something new to enhance my performance and care as a critical care nurse. From here, I was accepted and attended Gonzaga university and completed a graduate degree as a ARNP.  - I was trained for the culture wars in home school
• He and his colleagues found, as the paper puts it, a “steeply hierarchical structure that reflects profound social inequality.” The data revealed that just a quarter of all universities account for 71 to 86 percent of all tenure-track faculty in the U.S.  - A Tiny Minority of Elite Grad Schools Produce Most Tenured Academics
• And besides, there’s this hacksaw in your backpack now, maybe you don’t need the nail and hammer after all and what you really want is to make two planks from one? This reformed way of thinking that can only come from learning strikingly opposite theories and explanations of the same phenomena (something high schools simply don’t seem to do), also has a profound effect on your inner douchebag.  - Doing a startup taught me the value of staying in school
• Although this issue is coming to a head in Seattle it influences all of you in profound ways.In this appeal we provide clear evidence that the Discovery Math approach worsens the achievement gap between minority/disadvantaged students and their peers.  - Lawsuit against "Discovery Math" in Seattle Schools
• Teachers can have a profound effect on students, but it would be foolish to believe that teachers alone can undo the damage caused by poverty and its associated burdens.Guggenheim skirts the issue of poverty by showing only families that are intact and dedicated to helping their children succeed.  - The Myth of Charter Schools
• All of us, civilian and law enforcement, white, black, and Latino, have an interest in that kind of policing.We need to be careful it doesn’t drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.  - FBI director's speech at U. Chicago Law School
• But, soon, her feelings changed."The most terrible thing was not that he had cheated me, but that he had lost his innocence," she said.She became consumed with what she describes as "a profound need to make a difference to the people of Nigeria".Ms Grette's relationship with Johnny (not his real name) began after an evening of fun and games with her girlfriends, during which they playfully created a profile for her on an online dating website.  - I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me
• However, since then the amount of IQ testing taking place has waned - and IQ increases have remained steady.Flynn puts this continued progress down to profound shifts in society as well as education over the last century, which have led people to think in a more abstract, scientific way - the kind of intelligence measured by IQ tests.  - Are humans getting cleverer?

Meaning of "profound" in English

• situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
  Examples
  - the dark unfathomed caves of ocean
  - unplumbed depths of the sea
  - remote and unsounded caverns
  
• (of sleep) deep and complete
  Examples
  - fell into a profound sleep
  - a sound sleeper
  - deep wakeless sleep
  
• coming from deep within one
• of the greatest intensity; complete
  Example
  - a state of profound shock
  
• showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
  Examples
  - a profound insight
  - a profound book
  - a profound mind
  - profound contempt
  - profound regret
  
• far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
  Examples
  - the book underwent fundamental changes
  - committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance
  - profound social changes
  

Meaning of "profound" in Hindi

• समुद्र ( Samudr)
• महासागर ( Mahasagar, mahaasaagar)
• गम्भीर ( Gambhir, gambheer)
• गहरा ( Gahara, gaharaa)
• अगाध ( Agadh, agaadh)
• परम ( Param)
• गहन ( Gahan)
• विद्वान ( Vidvan, widwan)
• निपुण ( Nipun)
• नम्र ( Namr)
• विनीत ( Vinit, vineet, winit)
• अथाह ( Athah)
• पारंगत ( Parangat, paarangat)

Synonyms of "profound"

• unsounded
• unfathomed
• unplumbed
• wakeless
• heavy
• sound
• fundamental

Antonyms of "profound"

• superficial

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