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Radically vs Profoundly - What's the difference?

radically | profoundly |

As adverbs the difference between radically and profoundly

is that radically is in a radical manner; fundamentally; very while profoundly is (manner) with depth, meaningfully.

radically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
    • two radically different political groups
  • * 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
    • The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
  • At the root.
    • "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
  • * 1788 , Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
    • This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.

    Related terms

    * radical * root

    profoundly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (manner) With depth, meaningfully.
    • He thought and wrote profoundly .
  • (evaluative) Very importantly.
    • More profoundly , it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
  • (degree) Deeply; very.
    • From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.