deep

Signification

Adj

1. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
2. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
3. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
4. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
5. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
6. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
7. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
8. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
9. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
10. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
11. Extending, reaching or positioned far from a point of reference, especially downwards.
12. Complex, involved.
13. Complex, involved.
14. Complex, involved.
15. Complex, involved.
16. Complex, involved.
17. Low in pitch.
18. Highly saturated; rich.
19. Sound, heavy (describing a state of sleep from which one is not easily awoken).
20. Muddy; boggy; sandy; said of roads.
21. Distant in the past, ancient.

Adv

1. Far, especially far down through something or into something, physically or figuratively.
2. In a profound, not superficial, manner.
3. In large volume.
4. Back towards one's own goal, baseline, or similar.

Noun

1. The deep part of a lake, sea, etc.
2. The sea, the ocean.
3. A deep hole or pit, a water well; an abyss.
4. A deep or innermost part of something in general.
5. A silent time; quiet isolation.
6. A deep shade of colour.
7. The profound part of a problem.
8. A fielding position near the boundary.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/diːp/

Étymologie

From Middle English depe, deep, dep, deop, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *deup, from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-nós, from *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian Bokmål dyp (“deep”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).