PROFOUNDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profoundly mean? 

• PROFOUNDLY (adverb)
  The adverb PROFOUNDLY has 1 sense:

1. to a great depth psychologically or emotionally

  Familiarity information: PROFOUNDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFOUNDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a great depth psychologically or emotionally

Synonyms:

deeply; intensely; profoundly

Context example:

she loved him intensely

Pertainym:

profound (coming from deep within one)

 Context examples 

Professor Summerlee, a long, melancholy figure, walks with dragging steps and drooping head, as one who is already profoundly sorry for himself.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Earlier studies have shown large impacts can profoundly affect Earth’s climate, with major consequences for life on Earth at the time.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

The team were able to analyze the atmospheric components of this exoplanet, which is similar in mass to Saturn but profoundly different in many other ways.

(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)

The researchers reported inventing a coating good at resisting substances that are sticky and vary profoundly in viscosity across their mass—like human fecal matter.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

What, in a way, most profoundly impressed Martin, was the correlation of knowledge—of all knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In profoundly deaf children, the auditory system undergoes a functional reorganisation, repurposing itself to respond more to visual stimuli, for example.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

One day afterward, the researchers found that the mice lacking FOXO3 had become profoundly deaf.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)

Sherlock Holmes preserved his calm professional manner until our visitor had left us, although it was easy for me, who knew him so well, to see that he was profoundly excited.

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

Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now swallowed double my usual quantity and soon slept profoundly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What was my astonishment when I beheld my aunt, who had been profoundly quiet and attentive, make a dart at Uriah Heep, and seize him by the collar with both hands!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)