Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 17

Deep (a.) 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.

Deep (a.) Of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.

Deep clerks she dumbs. -- Shak.

Deep (a.) 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.

Deep (a.) Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.

Deep (a.) Of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy. "The deep thunder." -- Byron.

The bass of heaven's deep organ. -- Milton.

Deep (a.) 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.

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."

Deep (n.) 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.

Deep (n.) 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.

Deep (adv.) To a great depth; far down; "dived deeply"; "dug deep" [syn: deeply, deep].

Deep (adv.) To an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening" [syn: deep, late].

Deep (adv.) To a great distance; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods."

Deep (a.) 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].

Deep (a.) Marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory."

Deep (a.) 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].

Deep (a.) Very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe."

Deep (a.) Extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness."
Deep (a.) 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, deep].

Deep (a.) Strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red" [syn: deep, rich].

Deep (a.) Relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow."

Deep (a.) Extending relatively far inward; "a deep border."

Deep (a.) (Of darkness) Very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: thick, deep].

Deep (a.) Large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget."

Deep (a.) With head or back bent low; "a deep bow."

Deep (a.) 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"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying].

Deep (a.) 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, deep, recondite].

Deep (a.) Exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot."

Deep (n.) The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter."

Deep (n.) A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor [syn: trench, deep, oceanic abyss].

Deep (n.) Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep."

DEEP, () Dynamical ExaScale Entry Platform (Europe)

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).

Deepened (imp. & p. p.) of Deepen.

Deepening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deepen.

Deepen (v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

It would . . . deepen the bed of the Tiber. -- Addison.

Deepen (v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.

You must deepen your colors. -- Peacham.

Deepen (v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.

Deepen (v. t.) To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.

Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. -- Pope.

Deepen (v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.

His blood-red tresses deepening in the sun. -- Byron.

Deepen (v.) Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen].

Deepen (v.) Become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: intensify, deepen].

Deepen (v.) Make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it."

Deepen (v.) Become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" [syn: deepen, change].

Deepfake (n.) 深偽 A video of a person in which their face or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else, typically used maliciously or to spread false information.

‘The committee hearing on worldwide threats cited deepfakes as a growing concern.’

Deep-fet (a.) Deeply fetched or drawn.

Deep-laid (a.) Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.

Deeply (adv.) At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.

Deeply (adv.) Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.

Deeply (adv.) Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.

Deeply (adv.) Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.

Deeply (adv.) With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

Deep-mouthed (a.) Having a loud and sonorous voice.

Deepness (n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

Deepness (n.) Craft; insidiousness.

Deep-read (a.) Profoundly book- learned.

Deep-sea (a.) Of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.

Deep-waisted (a.) Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.

Deer (n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Mice and rats, and such small deer. -- Shak.

The camel, that great deer. -- NLindisfarne MS.

Deer (n. sing. & pl.) (Zool.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is Cervus dama; the common American deer is Cervus Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is Cervus Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is Cervus macrotis. See Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer.

Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc.

Deer mouse (Zool.), The white-footed mouse ({Peromyscus leucopus, formerly Hesperomys leucopus) of America.

Small deer, Petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) "Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer." -- G. P. Marsh.

Deer (n.) Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers [syn: deer, cervid].

Deer (n.) [ C ] (pl. Deer) (B2) 鹿 A quite large animal with four legs that eats grass and leaves. The male has antlers (= wide horns like branches) . The female is called a hind or a doe and the male a stag or buck.

// A herd of deer.