What is another word for profounder?

Pronunciation: [pɹəfˈa͡ʊndə] (IPA)

Profounder is a word used to describe something that is deep, significant, or reflective. However, there are several other words that can convey a similar meaning such as insightful, perceptive, thoughtful, or penetrating. These words denote a level of understanding or insight that goes beyond surface-level observations. Other synonyms for profounder include wise, sagacious, intelligent, and astute. These words are used to describe a person who has a strong understanding of a certain subject and can provide valuable insights. In essence, profounder is a word used to describe something that goes beyond the surface and is indicative of a deep level of understanding or reflection.

What are the hypernyms for Profounder?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    WISER, deeper, more skilled, more adept, more astute, more erudite, more insightful, more knowledgeable, more learned, more perceptive.

Usage examples for Profounder

In no other writer, ancient or modern, will he find a profounder sense of human dignity, of the supreme claims of affection, of the superiority of a natural to a conventional life.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
No writer has shown a profounder reverence for human affection.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
But it is not impossible to imagine circumstances which, but for this early connection with Punch, would have awakened and developed a different and perhaps profounder side of du Maurier, of which we seem to get a glimpse in the illustrations to Meredith in The Cornhill Magazine.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood

Famous quotes with Profounder

  • Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
  • Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
    George Bernard Shaw
  • I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.
    Mehmet Murat ildan
  • But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
  • In the prophetic tradition, properly understood, Islam must be perceived as a legitimate dialectical response to the failure of orthodox Christianity. Protestants should be able to see that the need for a Protestant Reformation was there already in the 7th century C.E., to be perceived by prophetic eyes. ... New light is coming from ... a profounder appreciation of Judeo-Christian heresy, the alternatives eliminated by that triumph of orthodoxy which Hegel regards, as he regards all world-historical triumphs, as the triumph of God. .
    Norman O. Brown

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