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say it: deep
deep is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply". It is pronounced /ˈdip/ — deep. It carries 21 recorded senses.
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”
very distant in time or space
“deep in the past”
“deep in enemy territory”
“deep in the woods”
“a deep space probe”
of an obscure nature
“the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms”
“a deep dark secret”
“the inscrutable workings of Providence”
“in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life”
“rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands”
exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
“deep political machinations”
“a deep plot”
the central and most intense or profound part
“in the deep of night”
“in the deep of winter”
a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
to a great distance
“penetrated deep into enemy territory”
“went deep into the woods”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deep come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.