deep
pronunciation
How to pronounce deep in British English:
UK [diːp]
How to pronounce deep in American English:
US [diːp]
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- Noun:
- the central and most intense or profound part
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- literary term for an ocean
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- Adjective:
- relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- marked by depth of thinking
- 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
- very distant in time or space
- extreme
- having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
- strong; intense
- relatively thick from top to bottom
- extending relatively far inward
- (of darkness) very intense
- large in quantity or size
- with head or back bent low
- of an obscure nature
- difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
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- Adverb:
- to a great depth
- to an advanced time
- to far into space
Word Origin
- deep
- deep: [OE] Deep is a member of a quite extensive and heterogeneous family of English words. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *deupaz (source also of German tief, Dutch diep, and Swedish djup), which was a derivative of the base *d(e)u- ‘deep, hollow’. This may also have been the ancestor of the first syllable of dabchick ‘little grebe’ [16] (which would thus mean literally ‘diving duck’), while a nasalized version of it may underlie dimple. It produced dip, and a variant has given us dive.=> dabchick, dimple, dip, dive
- deep (adj.)
- Old English deop "profound, awful, mysterious; serious, solemn; deepness, depth," deope (adv.), from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (cognates: 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" (cognates: 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).
- deep (n.)
- Old English deop "deep water," especially the sea, from the source of deep (adj.).
Antonym
Example
- 1. That doesn 't mean that you have some deep insight .
- 2. Sponsorships often arise from deep and strong mentoring connections , " says bridget van kralingen . "
- 3. Out of that shared interest came a deep and profound friendship , even a dependence . "
- 4. Drillers inject the salty wastewater into wells a mile or two deep .
- 5. But we have deep structural problems .