profound

In a sentence

Six example sentences with profound, each labelled with its topic.

• Students argue for weeks over a single page of Spinoza, finding something profound in a sentence that first looked ordinary.

  Philosophy

• Rothko's late canvases produce a profound stillness in visitors who arrived expecting nothing more than large rectangles of color.

  Art

• Darwin's notebooks record a profound shift in thinking, one that reorganised every branch of biology in the century after him.

  Science

• The last chord faded into a profound silence, and nobody in the hall moved for nearly half a minute.

  Music

• Doctors classify hearing loss as profound when even a shout from across the table cannot be heard at all.

  Medicine

• A single kind teacher can have a profound effect on a child, one that shows up in choices made forty years later.

  Psychology

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• focussed
• diminish
• labored
• erode
• panelled
• unambiguous
• consenting
• dissipate
• demonstrative
• correlate
• denote
• saturate