Deep Definition
- At bottom; basically:
Deep down, she was still a rebel.
- In difficulty.
- to behave in a rash or reckless manner
- to go insane
- in trouble or difficulty
- the sea or ocean
Other Word Forms of Deep
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Deep
- deep down
- in deep water
- go off the deep end
- in deep water
- the deep
Origin of Deep
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From Middle English depe, from Old English dēop (“deep, profound; awful, mysterious; heinous; serious, solemn, earnest; extreme, great”), from Proto-Germanic *deupaz (“deep”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéwbus, from *dʰewb- (“deep”). Cognate with Scots depe (“deep”), Eastern Frisian djap (“deep”), West Frisian djip (“deep”), Low German deep (“deep”), Dutch diep (“deep”), German tief (“deep”), Danish dyb (“deep”), Norwegian dyp (“deep”), Swedish djup (“deep”), Icelandic djúpur (“deep”), Lithuanian dubùs (“deep, hollow”), Albanian det (“sea”), Welsh dwfn (“deep”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English dep from Old English dēop dheub- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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