6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deep \Deep\ (d[=e]p), a. [Compar. {Deeper}; superl. {Deepest}.]
[OE. dep, deop, AS. de['o]p; akin to D. diep, G. tief, Icel.
dj[=u]pr, Sw. diup, Dan. dyb, Goth. diups; fr. the root of E.
dip, dive. See {Dip}, {Dive}.]
1. Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular
dimension (measured from the surface downward, and
distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to
the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
The water where the brook is deep. --Shak.
2. Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great
horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or
nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or
wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six
files deep.
Shadowing squadrons deep. --Milton.
Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep
nook. --Shak.
3. Low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as,
a deep valley.
4. Hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to
shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not
obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
Speculations high or deep. --Milton.
A question deep almost as the mystery of life. --De
Quincey.
O Lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. --Ps.
xcii. 5.
5. Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial;
thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
Deep clerks she dumbs. --Shak.
6. Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy;
heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep
horror. ``Deep despair.'' --Milton. ``Deep silence.''
--Milton. ``Deep sleep.'' --Gen. ii. 21. ``Deeper
darkness.'' -->Hoole. ``Their deep poverty.'' --2 Cor.
viii. 2.
An attitude of deep respect. --Motley.
7. Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as,
deep blue or crimson.
8. Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
``The deep thunder.'' --Byron.
The bass of heaven's deep organ. --Milton.
9. Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. --Chaucer.
The ways in that vale were very deep. --Clarendon.
{A deep line of operations} (Military), a long line.
{Deep mourning} (Costume), mourning complete and strongly
marked, the garments being not only all black, but also
composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is
identified with mourning garments.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deep \Deep\, n.
1. That which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or
ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.
--Cowley.
The hollow deep of hell resounded. --Milton.
Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound.
--Pope.
2. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or
incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
Thy judgments are a great deep. --Ps. xxxvi.
6.
{Deep of night}, the most quiet or profound part of night;
dead of night.
The deep of night is crept upon our talk. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deep \Deep\, adv.
To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. --Milton.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. --Pope.
Note: Deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed
to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut,
deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, ``deep-uddered
kine.''
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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"
n 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";
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Deep
used to denote (1) the grave or the abyss (Rom. 10:7; Luke
8:31); (2) the deepest part of the sea (Ps. 69:15); (3) the
chaos mentioned in Gen. 1:2; (4) the bottomless pit, hell (Rev.
9:1, 2; 11:7; 20:13).
From eng-fra [engfra]:
deep
[diːp]
profond