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Deep

DEEP, a.
1. Extending or being far below the surface; descending far downward; profound ; opposed to shallow; as deep water; a deep pit or well.
2. Low in situation; being or descending far below the adjacent land; as a deep valley.
3. Entering far; piercing a great way. A tree in a good soil takes deep root. A spear struck deep into the flesh.
4. Far from the outer part; secreted.
A spider deep ambushed in her den.
5. Not superficial or obvious; hidden; secret.
He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12.
6. Remote from comprehension.
O Lord, thy thoughts are very deep. Ps. Xcii.
7. Sagacious; penetrating; having the power to enter far into a subject; as a man of deep thought; a deep divine.
8. Artful; contriving; concealing artifice; insidious; designing; as a friend, deep, hollow treacherous.
9. Grave in sound; low; as the deep tones of an organ.
10. Very still; solemn; profound; as deep silence.
11. Thick; black; not to be penetrated by the sight.
Now deeper darkness brooded on the ground.
12. Still; sound; not easily broken or disturbed.
The Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam. Gen 2.
13. Depressed; sunk low, metaphorically; as deep poverty.
14. Dark; intense; strongly colored; as a deep brown; a deep crimson; a deep blue.
15. Unknown; unintelligible.
A people of deeper speech than thou canst perceive. Isa 33.
16. Heart-felt; penetrating; affecting; as a deep sense of guilt.
17. Intricate; not easily understood or unraveled; as a deep plot or intrigue.
This word often qualifies a verb, like an adverb.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
DEEP, n.
1. The sea; the abyss of waters; the ocean.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. Job x1i.
2. A lake; a great collection of water.
Lanch out into the deep, and let down your nets. Luke 5.
3. That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible.
Thy judgments are a great deep. Psa 36.
4. The most still or solemn part; the midst; as, in deep of night.
deep appears in definitions for these words:
Abyss Acacia Acroamatic Acroatic Alkanet Almagra Anchorage Anguished Ant Arcuation Attention Aurora Awatcha Band Barbel Barracuda Barrel Barytone Base Baseness Basking-shark Bass Bate Beagle Begrime Begrimed Belch Belching Bennet Bewail Bitterness Bosom Bottom Bowl Bream Brome Brown Bucket Burn Burrow Bury Buzzard Calamitous Calamitousness Canaliculate Carboncle Carnelian Cat Cavern Caverned Channel Chrome Chub Cimmerian Coffer Cologne-earth Confine Confound Contemplatively Contrite Contriteness Contrition Cormorant Couch Crack Crime Crimson Crimsoned Crimsoning Crocus Crucian Cup Cut Cutting Darkness Dead Decline Deep Deep-mouthed Deep-throated Deep-vaulted Deep-waisted Deepen Deepened Deepening Deeply Deepness Defect Deplore Deplored Deplorer Deploring Deprecate Deprecated Depth Despondency Desponding Dinted Diodon Dire Discover Disentrance Dish Dissemble Dive Diver Diving Diving-bell Dock Doubt Dove Draw-well Drone Drops Dungeon Dunning Dye Elevate Elevation Eligible Elops Emerge Emery Empurple Enamorado Engrain Engrave Engraven Engulfed Engulfment Enroot Enrooted Enrooting Enstamp Enstamped Enstamping Enwombed Erebus Erudition Explore Far-fetch Fast Fearfully Feeling Fieldfare Fissure Fistula Flagitious Fleet Flew Flewed Float Flourish Fougade Furrow Gash Gashed Gashing Glacier Glassy Goshawk Great Grime Groan Groaning Grum Grunt Gulf Hastiness Head Heart-breaking Heart-broken Heart-buried Heart-felt Heart-rending Heart-sick Heart-sore Heart-sorrowing Heart-whole Heart-wounded Heaviness Heavy Heliotrope High High-colored High-red High-repented Hollow Hood Hooping-cough Howling Humbird Humility Imbosom Imbue Imbuing Immerse Immersed Immersing Immersion Impend Impose Impress Impression Inability Indelibly Infixed Ingraft Ingrafted Ingrafting Ingulf Ingulfed Ingulfing Inmost Insight Intone Intrench Inveteracy Inveterate Killow Lament Lethargy Light Lightly Linger Low Lowest Malady Malignity Mangrove Masticot Mature Mazarine Minium Mire Miriness Miry Misdemeanor Moat Moose Murky Muse Museful Nativity Nettle-tree O Ocher Oculist Offing Omnific Passage Pechblend Perch Peroration Phalanx Pierce Piercing Pike Pinite Piston Plot Poach Poachard Politician Pot Profound Profoundly Q Quintessence Quitch-grass Rack Radicated Radication Rancor Rancorous Rancorously Ravine Reach Recluse Record Reddle Regurgitate Reign Remorseless Repentance Repetition Resenter Resentingly Roaring Rock-ruby Root Rooted Rootedly Rudd Safflow Sardoin Scapolite Scratch Seal Secret Seventeenth Shadow Shallow Shallowness Shave Shelter Short-sightedness Shortsighted Sigh Sighing Silver Sink Skindeep Slight Slothfulness Slough Slumber Snowdeep Sob Solitude Sore Sorrowful Sorry Soundings Specuation Spright Stagger Stalk Stamp Stamped Stand Standing Stark Step Stern Strange Strength Strike Strong Study Sulcate Sunfish Superficial Superficially Suspiration Suspire Swearing Tent Theorbo Thickly Thinker Thoughtfulness Timidity Tint Tossing Trench Trenched Trenching Turmalin Turmeric Underditch Underdrain Unfathomable Utter Vasty Villainy Viol Violono Vomited Vomiting Voyage Wailing Ward Water-furrow Water-wheel Whelm White-wine Winding-engine Woad Womb Wondrous Wretch Wretched Zoisite

 

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