Profound vs Learned - What's the difference?
profound | learned | Related terms |
Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
* (rfdate),
Very deep; very serious
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
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Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
* (rfdate),
* (rfdate),
Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
* (rfdate)
(obsolete) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
(obsolete) An abyss.
(obsolete) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
(obsolete) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
(US) (learn): taught
Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
* 1854 , Charles Edward Pollock, Lake v. Plaxton , 156 Eng. Rep. 412 (Exch.) 414; 10 Ex. 199, 200 (Eng.)
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(learn)
Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
Profound is a related term of learned.
As adjectives the difference between profound and learned
is that profound is descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep while learned is (poetic).As a noun profound
is (obsolete) the deep; the sea; the ocean.As a verb profound
is (obsolete) to cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.profound
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A gulf profound
- Profound sciatica
- Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt.
- What humble gestures! What profound reverence!
Noun
(-)- God in the fathomless profound / Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys .
- (Milton)
Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
learned
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lerned, from (etyl)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
- My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation [...].
- My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
Alternative forms
*Usage notes
* This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as , rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.Synonyms
* (having much knowledge) brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little knowledge) ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducatedDerived terms
* learnedly * learnednessEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* learntVerb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
