deep

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Going a long way down from the top or surface.

   The children weren't allowed to swim in the deep end of the pool.

2. 2
   adj

   Large or serious in amount or degree.

   The government announced deep cuts in the budget.

3. 3
   adj

   Strongly felt or intense.

   She felt a deep sense of gratitude towards her teacher.

4. 4
   adj

   Low in sound or pitch.

   He greeted us in a deep, calm voice.

5. 5
   adv

   Far down or far into something.

   They travelled deep into the forest.

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Simplified etymology

Deep is inherited from Old English and is historically related to dip and dive. In Old English it could also function with the sense now expressed by the noun depth, which arose later in the Middle English period.

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”), North Frisian diip, jip (“deep”), Saterland Frisian djoop (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Alemannic German tüüf (“deep”), Central Franconian deef, deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Luxembourgish déif (“deep”), Mòcheno tiaf (“deep”), Vilamov…

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