different between profound vs giant

English

Etymology

From Middle English profound, from Anglo-Norman profound, from Old French profont, from Latin profundus, from pro + fundus (“bottom; foundation”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?-found?, IPA^(key): /p???fa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd
• Hyphenation: pro?found

Adjective

profound (comparative more profound, superlative most profound)

1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
2. Very deep; very serious
3. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough
4. Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading
   • 1603-1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

     How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?

   • 1860, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity : including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicholas V.

     Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.

   • 2019, Shelina Janmohamed, Long before Shamima Begum, Muslim women were targets, in the Guardian.[1]

     It’s probably one of the reasons the Shamima Begum case is having such a profound impact; one-dimensional stereotypes about Muslim women already run so deep.

5. Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

     And with this, and a profound bow to his patrons, the Manager retires, and the curtain rises.

   • 17th century, Brian Duppa, Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion

     What humble gestures! What profound reverence!

Translations

Noun

profound (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
   • 1638, George Sandys, A Paraphrase vpon the Divine Poems, Exodvs 15:

     God, in the fathomlesse profound / Hath all his choice Commanders drown'd.

2. (obsolete) An abyss.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book II), 976-980:

     ...if some other place, / From your dominion won, th' Ethereal King / Possesses lately, thither to arrive / travel this profound. Direct my course...

Verb

profound (third-person singular simple present profounds, present participle profounding, simple past and past participle profounded)

1. (obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
2. (obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

Related terms

• profundicate
• profundify
• profundity
• profoundness

Old French

Adjective

profound m (oblique and nominative feminine singular profounde)

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of profont

English

Alternative forms

• giaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gag?s, gagant-, from Latin gig?s, gigant-, from Ancient Greek ????? (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).

Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ?oten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).

Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?a?.?nt/
  • (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /?d?a?nt/
• Rhymes: -a??nt
• Hyphenation: gi?ant

Noun

giant (plural giants)

1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. (mythology) Specifically:
   1. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
   2. A jotun.
3. A very tall and large person.
4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
5. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
6. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
7. A very large organisation.
8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
   • 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":

     she's not the intellectual giant

Synonyms

See also: Thesaurus:giant

Translations

Adjective

giant (not comparable)

1. Very large.

Synonyms

• colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
• See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Antonyms

• dwarf
• midget

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga