DEEPLY (deeper)

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Irregular inflected form: deeper   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does deeply mean? 

• DEEPLY (adverb)
  The adverb DEEPLY has 2 senses:

1. to a great depth psychologically or emotionally

2. to a great depth; far down or in

  Familiarity information: DEEPLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEPLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a great depth psychologically or emotionally

Synonyms:

deeply; intensely; profoundly

Context example:

she loved him intensely

Pertainym:

deep (relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To a great depth; far down or in

Synonyms:

deep; deeply

Context example:

dug deep

Pertainym:

deep (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)

 Context examples 

She would never have guessed that this man who had come from beyond her horizon, was, in such moments, flashing on beyond her horizon with wider and deeper concepts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young man’s fate interests me deeply, since I know him and like him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

According to the MAVEN data, solar particles that caused the "Christmas lights" penetrated deeply into the Martian atmosphere—sparking auroras less than 100 km from the surface.

(Auroras on Mars, NASA)

The combined data resulted in a better, deeper and more complete image of the system.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

The images indicate that the vortices probably develop deeper in Neptune's atmosphere, becoming visible only when the top of the storm reaches higher altitudes.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

Now, a deeper analysis of the same Spitzer data finds this planet likely has an atmosphere whose ingredients could be similar to those of Earth's atmosphere, but thicker.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

Although the lava itself was low in nitrates, it heated the deeper layers of nutrient-rich water.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)