profoundly

Etymology

profound + -ly

adv

  1. (manner) With depth, meaningfully.
    He thought and wrote profoundly.
  2. (evaluative) Very importantly.
    More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
  3. (degree) Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.
    From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
    In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

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