Profoundly vs Heavily - What's the difference?
profoundly | heavily |
(manner) With depth, meaningfully.
(evaluative) Very importantly.
(degree) Deeply; very.
In a heavy manner.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= With a great weight.
To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
In a manner designed for heavy duty.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=14 So as to be thick or heavy.
In a laboured manner.
As adverbs the difference between profoundly and heavily
is that profoundly is with depth, meaningfully while heavily is in a heavy manner.profoundly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He thought and wrote profoundly .
- More profoundly , it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
- From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
heavily
English
Adverb
(en adverb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}
