Dictionary Definition
deep adj
1 relatively deep or strong; affecting one
deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep
emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep" [ant: shallow]
2 marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts";
"a deep allegory"
3 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; "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" [ant:
shallow]
4 very distant in time or space; "deep in the
past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep
space probe"
5 extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep
happiness"
6 having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental
range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone
voice"; "a bass clarinet" [syn: bass]
7 strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"
[syn: rich]
8 relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep
carpets"; "deep snow"
9 extending relatively far inward; "a deep
border"
10 (of darkness) very intense; "thick night";
"thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn:
thick]
11 large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the
budget"
12 with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
13 of an obscure nature; "the new insurance
policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep
dark secret"; "the inscrutible 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"
[syn: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying]
14 difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to
one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's
lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a
deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in
historiography" [syn: abstruse, recondite]
15 exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy;
"deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
Noun
1 the central and most intense or profound part;
"in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
2 a long steep-sided depression in the ocean
floor [syn: trench,
oceanic
abyss]
3 literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the
deep" adv
1 to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
[syn: deeply]
2 to an advanced time; "deep into the night";
"talked late into the evening" [syn: late]
3 to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy
territory"; "went deep into the woods";
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
dēopPronunciation
- , /diːp/, /di:p/
Adjective
en-adj er- (of a hole, water, ravine, cut, etc) Having its bottom far down.
- Profound, having
great meaning or
import, but possibly
obscure or not obvious.
- That is a deep thought
- Seriously or to a significant extent, not superficial.
- I just meant to help out a little, but now I'm deep into it
- They're deep in discussion
- I feel it deep in my heart
- They're deep in discussion
- I just meant to help out a little, but now I'm deep into it
- In extent in a direction away from the observer.
- The shelves are 30cm deep
- Thick in a vertical
direction.
- That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air
- There was a deep layer of soot over the window
- That cyclist's deep chest allows him to draw more air
- Voluminous
- to take a deep breath / sigh / drink
- In the context of "sound|voice": Low in pitch
- She has a very deep contralto
- In the context of "color": Dark and highly saturated
- That's a very deep shade of blue
- In the context of "cricket|baseball": : of a fielding
position near the boundary, or closer to the
boundary than one being compared to.
- He is fielding at deep mid wicket.
- a long way inside
- deep into the forest
- In the context of "sports|soccer|tennis": a long way forward
- a deep volley
- in a number of rows or layers
- A crowd three deep along the funeral procession
- In the context of "sleep": difficult to awake
- in a deep sleep
- right into one's mind
- He looked deep into her eyes
- with a lot of
- deep in debt
- In the context of "American football": Relatively farther downfield.
- In the context of "horse racing": three deep.
- Cigar Pal broke a bit slow, trailed by more than seven lengths after a half-mile, swung three deep into the stretch, rallied from eighth to make up more than four lengths and was nosed out six furlongs on the turf. (Greg Melikov on http://www.sportsbook.com)
Synonyms
- :
- sense having great meaning: heavy, meaningful, profound
- :
- sense thick in a vertical direction: thick
- sense voluminous: great, large, voluminous
- sense low in pitch: low, low-pitched
- : bright, rich, vivid
Antonyms
- : shallow
- sense having great meaning: frivolous, light, shallow, superficial
- : shallow
- sense thick in a vertical direction: shallow, thin
- sense voluminous: shallow, small
- sense low in pitch: high, high-pitched, piping
- : light, pale, desaturated, washed-out
Translations
having its bottom far down
profound
- Chinese:
- Danish: dyb, dybsindig, dybttænkende
- Finnish: syvällinen
- German: tief
- Hebrew: עמוק ('amoq)
- Hungarian: mély
- Japanese: (, fukai), (, shin'enna)
- Russian: глубокий
- Slovene: globok , globoka , globoko
- Spanish: profundo, profunda
- Swedish: djup, djupsinnig
in extent in a direction away from the observer
thick in a vertical direction
voluminous
of a sound or voice, low in pitch
of a color, dark and highly saturated
cricket term
a long way inward
a long way forward
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (shēn)
- Danish: dyb
- Finnish: pitkä
- German: tief
in a number of rows or layers
- Finnish: syvä
- German: tief
difficult to awake
right into one's mind
with a lot of
football and other similar games
- Danish: dyb
- Finnish: syvä
horse racing term
- ttbc Albanian: thellë
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Armenian: խոր (khor) (1,2)
- ttbc Basque: sakon, barna, barren
- ttbc Breton: don
- ttbc Catalan: profund
- ttbc Dutch: diep
- ttbc Esperanto: profunda
- ttbc Faroese: djúpur , djúp , djúpt (1, 2, 4, 6), langt (3), tjúkkur , tjúkk , tjúkt (5)
- ttbc French: profond (1, 2)
- ttbc Greek: βαθύς (varthís)
- ttbc Hebrew: עמוק (tzamók)
- ttbc Ido: profunda
- ttbc Indonesian: dalam, pekat, tua
- ttbc Italian: profondo , profonda (1, 2)
- ttbc Korean: 깊다 (gipda), 짙다(jitda)
- ttbc Polish: głęboki (1, 2, 13), w głąb (10, 14)
- ttbc Portuguese: profundo , profunda
- ttbc Romanian: adânc , adâncă
- ttbc Serbian: dubok (1-16), duboka , duboko
- ttbc Slovak: hlboký
See also
Adverb
Translations
deeply
Noun
- In the context of "literary|with "the"": (meaning 1 above) part
of a lake, sea, etc.
- creatures of the deep
- The deep (meaning 2 above) part of a problem.
- (with "the"): the sea, the ocean
- A fielding position near the boundary
- Russell is a safe pair of hands in the deep
Translations
(literary) part of a lake, sea, etc
- Danish: dyb
- Finnish: syvyys
- German: Tiefe
- Russian: пучина
(US, rare) part of a problem
- German: Tiefe
the sea, the ocean
- Danish: dyb
- German: Tiefe
- Russian: пучина
(cricket) a fielding position near the boundary
Extensive Definition
Deep or The Deep may refer to:
In film and television:
- The Deep (1970 film), a 1970 unfinished film directed by Orson Welles
- The Deep (film), a 1977 film based on Benchley's novel, directed by Peter Yates
- The Deep (CSI: NY episode), an episode of the television series CSI: NY (season 4)
In music:
- "Deep" (Pearl Jam song), A 1991 Song from Pearl Jam on the album TEN
- Deep (album), a 1990 album by Peter Murphy
- "Deep" (song), a promotional single by Nine Inch Nails
- The Deep (band), a short-lived band formed during the mid-1960s
- A song on Blackstreet's album Level II.
- The Deep (Asimov), a 1952 science fiction story by Isaac Asimov
- The Deep (John Crowley), a 1975 short novel
- The Deep, a 1976 novel by Peter Benchley
- The Deep (novel), a 2007 children's novel by Helen Dunmore
- An imaginary virtual reality universe in Sergey Lukyanenko's science fiction novels
In military:
- Deep operations - manoeuvre doctrine
Other:
- DEEP, Japanese Mixed Martial Arts Promotion
- The Deep (aquarium), a large underwater aquarium in Hull, England
- Deep Roy, a Kenyan-born dwarf actor
- The Deep, a 1953 painting by Jackson Pollock
- DEEP (Romania) - The Foundation for Development through Economic Education and Partnership, Romanian NGO
- The Deeps, Biblical term
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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arcane, arch, ardent, artful, astute, at bottom, at the core,
baritone, bass, bathyal zone, benthos, big drink, blue, blue water, booming, bottom waters, bottomless, bottomless
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deep-cut, deep-down, deep-echoing, deep-engraven, deep-felt,
deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-pitched, deep-reaching,
deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking,
deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deep-toned, deepgoing, deepish, deeply, deepmouthed, deepsome, depth, designing, devious, difficult, diplomatic, discerning, drink, dyed, earnest, earnestly, educated, encyclopedic, engaged, engrossed, erudite, esoteric, exhaustive, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-reaching,
feline, fervent, fixed, foxy, full, full-colored, grand, grave, great, ground, guileful, gulf, hard, heartfelt, heavily, heavy, hermetic, hidden, high sea, high seas,
hole, hollow, homefelt, hued, hydrosphere, imbued, immersed, impenetrable, in
Technicolor, in color, incomprehensible,
indelible, indoor, infinite, ingenious, inmost, inner, inner space, innermost, inscrutable, inside, insidious, intense, intensely, intent, interior, internal, intestine, intimate, into, intricate, intriguing, intrinsic, inventive, involved, inward, irresistible, keen, knee-deep, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, lost, low, low-pitched, main, main sea, maximum, mighty, mysterious, mystical, obscure, occult, occupied, ocean, ocean bottom, ocean depths,
ocean floor, ocean main, ocean sea, pansophic, past comprehension,
pawky, pelagic zone,
penetrating,
perspicacious,
pervading, piercing, pit, plenary, plotting, poignant, politic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, powerful, preoccupied, profound, profoundly, rapt, ready, recondite, resonant, resounding, resourceful, rich, roomy, rumbling, sagacious, sage, salt sea, salt water,
sapient, scheming, scholarly, scholastic, sea, secret, sepulchral, serious, serpentine, set, shaft, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sincere, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sonorous, sophistical, spacious, spreading, stained, stealthy, strategic, strong, studious, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, thalassa, the bounding main,
the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the
deeps, the depths, the seven seas, the vasty deep, tide, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, toned, total, transcendental, trench, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unfathomable, vast, voluminous, vulpine, wary, wash-colored, weighty, well, wide, widespread, wily, wise, wise as Solomon, wrapped, wrapped up, yawning, yawning
abyss