[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deep \deep\, adv.
   to a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.
   1913 webster

         deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. --milton.
   1913 webster

         drink deep, or taste not the pierian spring. --pope.
   1913 webster

   note: deep, in its usual adverbial senses, is often prefixed
         to an adjective; as, deep-chested, deep-cut,
         deep-seated, deep-toned, deep-voiced, "deep-uddered
         kine."
         1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deep \deep\ d=ep, a. compar. deeper d=ep"~er;
   superl. deepest d=ep"e^st. oe. dep, deop, as.
   de'op; akin to d. diep, g. tief, icel. dj=upr, sw. diup,
   dan. dyb, goth. diups; fr. the root of e. dip, dive. see
   dip, dive.
   1. extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular
      dimension measured from the surface downward, and
      distinguished from high, which is measured upward; far to
      the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.
      1913 webster

            the water where the brook is deep.    --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. extending far back from the front or outer part; of great
      horizontal dimension measured backward from the front or
      nearer part, mouth, etc.; as, a deep cave or recess or
      wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six
      files deep.
      1913 webster

            shadowing squadrons deep.             --milton.
      1913 webster

            safely in harbor
            is the king's ship in the deep nook.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as,
      a deep valley.
      1913 webster

   4. hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to
      shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not
      obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.
      1913 webster

            speculations high or deep.            --milton.
      1913 webster

            a question deep almost as the mystery of life. --de
                                                  quincey.
      1913 webster

            o lord, . . . thy thoughts are very deep. --ps.
                                                  xcii. 5.
      1913 webster

   5. of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial;
      thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.
      1913 webster

            deep clerks she dumbs.                --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy;
      heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep
      horror. "deep despair." --milton. "deep silence."
      --milton. "deep sleep." --gen. ii. 21. "deeper darkness."
      --hoole. "their deep poverty." --2 cor. viii. 2.
      1913 webster

            an attitude of deep respect.          --motley.
      1913 webster

   7. strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as,
      deep blue or crimson.
      1913 webster

   8. of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.
      "the deep thunder." --byron.
      1913 webster

            the bass of heaven's deep organ.      --milton.
      1913 webster

   9. muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the ways in that vale were very deep. --clarendon.
      1913 webster

   a deep line of operations military, a long line.

   deep mourning costume, mourning complete and strongly
      marked, the garments being not only all black, but also
      composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is
      identified with mourning garments.
      1913 webster
see also:
deeper deepest dip dive shallow superficial 
a deep line of operations deep mourning 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deep \deep\, n.
   1. that which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or
      ocean; an abyss; a great depth.
      1913 webster

            courage from the deeps of knowledge springs.
                                                  --cowley.
      1913 webster

            the hollow deep of hell resounded.    --milton.
      1913 webster

            blue neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. that which is profound, not easily fathomed, or
      incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
      1913 webster

            thy judgments are a great deep.       --ps. xxxvi.
                                                  6.
      1913 webster

   deep of night, the most quiet or profound part of night;
      dead of night.
      1913 webster

            the deep of night is crept upon our talk. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
deep of night 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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";
see also:
shallow bass rich thick cryptic cryptical 
inscrutable mysterious mystifying abstruse recondite 
trench oceanic abyss deeply late 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

303 moby thesaurus words for "deep":
   bassalia, machiavellian, machiavellic, absorbed, absorbing,
   abstract, abstracted, abstruse, abysm, abysmal, abyss, abyssal,
   abyssal zone, acute, ample, amplitudinous, ankle-deep, arcane,
   arch, ardent, artful, astute, at bottom, at the core, baritone,
   bass, bathyal zone, benthos, big drink, blue, blue water, booming,
   bottom waters, bottomless, bottomless depths, brine, briny, broad,
   broad-minded, cagey, canny, capacious, cavity, centered, central,
   chasm, civilized, clever, colored, commodious, complex,
   complicated, comprehensive, concealed, concentrated, consequential,
   considerable, contralto, contriving, crafty, crater, crevasse,
   cultivated, cultured, cunning, cute, dark, deceitful, deep-colored,
   deep-cut, deep-down, deep-echoing, deep-engraven, deep-felt,
   deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-pitched, deep-reaching,
   deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking,
   deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deep-toned, deepgoing, deepish, deeply,
   deepmouthed, deepsome, depth, designing, devious, difficult,
   diplomatic, discerning, drink, dyed, earnest, earnestly, educated,
   encyclopedic, engaged, engrossed, erudite, esoteric, exhaustive,
   expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-reaching, feline,
   fervent, fixed, foxy, full, full-colored, grand, grave, great,
   ground, guileful, gulf, hard, heartfelt, heavily, heavy, hermetic,
   hidden, high sea, high seas, hole, hollow, homefelt, hued,
   hydrosphere, imbued, immersed, impenetrable, in technicolor,
   in color, incomprehensible, indelible, indoor, infinite, ingenious,
   inmost, inner, inner space, innermost, inscrutable, inside,
   insidious, intense, intensely, intent, interior, internal,
   intestine, intimate, into, intricate, intriguing, intrinsic,
   inventive, involved, inward, irresistible, keen, knee-deep,
   knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, lost, low,
   low-pitched, main, main sea, maximum, mighty, mysterious, mystical,
   obscure, occult, occupied, ocean, ocean bottom, ocean depths,
   ocean floor, ocean main, ocean sea, pansophic, past comprehension,
   pawky, pelagic zone, penetrating, perspicacious, pervading,
   piercing, pit, plenary, plotting, poignant, politic, polyhistoric,
   polymath, polymathic, powerful, preoccupied, profound, profoundly,
   rapt, ready, recondite, resonant, resounding, resourceful, rich,
   roomy, rumbling, sagacious, sage, salt sea, salt water, sapient,
   scheming, scholarly, scholastic, sea, secret, sepulchral, serious,
   serpentine, set, shaft, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sincere, slick,
   slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sonorous, sophistical,
   spacious, spreading, stained, stealthy, strategic, strong,
   studious, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, thalassa,
   the bounding main, the brine, the briny, the briny deep, the deep,
   the deep sea, the deeps, the depths, the seven seas,
   the vasty deep, tide, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, toned,
   total, transcendental, trench, trickish, tricksy, tricky,
   unfathomable, vast, voluminous, vulpine, wary, wash-colored,
   weighty, well, wide, widespread, wily, wise, wise as solomon,
   wrapped, wrapped up, yawning, yawning abyss

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

deep
   used to denote 1 the grave or the abyss rom. 10:7; luke
   8:31; 2 the deepest part of the sea ps. 69:15; 3 the
   chaos mentioned in gen. 1:2; 4 the bottomless pit, hell rev.
   9:1, 2; 11:7; 20:13.
   

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