PROFOUNDLY Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

profoundly

adverb

as in deeply

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Recent Examples of profoundly Without intervention, their trajectory leads to a profoundly medicalized adulthood. — Babak J. Orandi, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026 Winner of the Best Documentary prize at Cannes, filmmaker and actress Pegah Ahangarani turns her own family archive into a profoundly personal chronicle of Iran’s long struggle for freedom. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026 Heath, who was 10 or 11 at the time, is profoundly autistic with limited language and significant sensory sensitivities. — Sarah Rose Siskind, Curbed, 28 Sep. 2026 And how could a young man so passionate about helping others, who loved his family so deeply, do something that would hurt so profoundly and permanently? — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 His words are at once part of the rhythm section and profoundly personal poetry. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026 More Women’s Health and Menopause Research Less than 1% of federal research budgets are allocated to midlife women’s health, a profoundly sad statistic. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Sep. 2026 Kamila has created a film that is profoundly Indonesian in its setting and perspective, while speaking to universal experiences of trauma, resilience and the search for belonging. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026 And, indeed, science does produce knowledge that is both profoundly beautiful and useful. — Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for profoundly

Adverb

There’s just been very clear views in the past as to what a banker should look like, how a banker should talk, how a banker should act, and that’s pretty deeply embedded in the finance world.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
There’s a skate park for grommets, and for those who’ve been beat up in the waves, the option to call for a deeply therapeutic in-villa Balinese massage.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of deeply

Adverb

As for why the driver has not been publicly identified, Barnes said police have positively identified him.

— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
That in-between space might hold the real reason many culture change initiatives never reach the people they are intended to positively affect.

— Gwen Mdinaradze, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of positively

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One major American political party – the Democrats – is wrestling with a large insurgency of young Socialists who want to radically re-order the economic structure of our nation.

— Doug Wojcieszak, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Aggregate data can obscure radically different labor market realities, and monetary policy calibrated only to the aggregate can miss the productive capacity sitting beneath it.

— Katica Roy, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of radically

Adverb

There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Buck and Aikman made the leap from Fox in 2022, and while Bristol was nimble in hashing out a new deal with the lead mic, the color analyst’s contract is (obviously) a wholly separate issue.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of wholly

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Charles — my heart hurts for Charles, dead on his farm, wealthy at the time of his passing, and with utterly no one to share it with except a brother who for ten years never wrote him a letter.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
Yet these anachronisms seem to make perfect sense, making these 500-year-old poems read like swift, contemporary lyrics, timeless yet utterly urgent.

— Craig Morgan Teicher, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of utterly

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The turmoil from Moore’s Michigan conduct continues to linger, 10 months later, but the process of clearing out his office in Schembechler Hall went remarkably swift.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Fraternity membership has proved remarkably resilient despite decades of scandal.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of remarkably

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Having absolutely no chance of playing past the 162 and getting to plan your offseason appropriately.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
But neither source absolutely predicts whether 2026 will be a record-warm year, the spokesperson said, citing NOAA physical scientist Russell Vose.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of absolutely

Adverb

This year, however, an exceptionally strong and possibly even record-breaking El Niño weather pattern — driven by warm ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific — is expected to make for a warm and wet winter in Europe.

— Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
The motor is inspired by aerospace engineering, spinning at 125,000rpm to generate exceptionally strong suction power.

— Cierra Cowan, PC Magazine, 6 Oct. 2026

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