Adjective deep has 15 senses
- deep - relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"
Antonyms: shallow, light, wakeful, skin-deep, superficial, surface
- deep - marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"
Antonym: superficial (indirect, via profound)
- deep - 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"
Antonyms: shallow, ankle-deep, knee-deep, fordable, neritic, reefy, shelfy, shelvy, shoaly
- deep - very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"
Antonym: close (indirect, via distant)
- deep - extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
Antonym: mild (indirect, via intense)
- bass, deep - having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"
Antonyms: high, high-pitched (indirect, via low)
- deep, rich - strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"
Antonyms: colorless, colourless (indirect, via colorful)
- deep - relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"
Antonym: thin (indirect, via thick)
- deep - extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
Antonym: narrow (indirect, via wide)
- thick, deep - (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
Antonym: mild (indirect, via intense)
- deep - large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
Antonyms: small, little (indirect, via large, big)
- deep - with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
Antonym: high (indirect, via low)
- cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying - 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"
Antonym: explicable (indirect, via inexplicable)
- abstruse, deep, recondite - 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"
Antonym: exoteric (indirect, via esoteric)
- deep - exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"
Antonym: artless (indirect, via artful)
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Adverbial deep has 3 senses
- deeply, deep - to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"
- deep, late - to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"
- deep - to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods";
Derived from adjective deep4
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Noun deep has 3 senses
- deep - the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"
--1 is a kind of middle
- trench, deep, oceanic abyss - a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
--2 is a kind of natural depression, depression
--2 has particulars: Atacama Trench; Bougainville Trench; Japan Trench; Nares Deep
- deep - literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"
--3 is a kind of ocean
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