deep
     adj 1: 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}]
     2: marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep
        allegory"
     3: 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}]
     4: very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in
        enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space
        probe"
     5: extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"
     6: 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}]
     7: strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red" [syn: {rich}]
     8: relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep
        snow"
     9: extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"
     10: (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness";
         "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: {thick}]
     11: large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"
     12: with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"
     13: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written
         without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark
         secret"; "the inscrutible 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},
         {inscrutable}, {mysterious}, {mystifying}]
     14: 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}, {recondite}]
     15: exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep
         political machinations"; "a deep plot"
     n 1: the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep
          of night"; "in the deep of winter"
     2: a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor [syn: {trench},
         {oceanic abyss}]
     3: literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"
     adv 1: to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep" [syn: {deeply}]
     2: to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late
        into the evening" [syn: {late}]
     3: to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory";
        "went deep into the woods";
Source: WordNet® 2.0