debauchee, dissipater, Inf. rip; voluptuary, sensualist, sybarite, hedonist; reprobate, degenerate, pervert, sodomite; lecher, satyr, satyromaniac; whoremonger, pander, pimp, procurer.
5. wastrel, waster, prodigal, squanderer, spendthrift, scattergood, Inf. high liver, Inf. big spender, Inf. free spender, spender,
profound, adj. 1. wise, sage, sagacious, scholarly, intellectual; learned, erudite, educated, informed, well-read, well-versed, well-posted; knowledgeable, knowing, gnostic; comprehensive, encyclopedic, omniscient, all-knowing; philosophical, thoughtful, reflective, reflecting.
2. intense, extreme, acute, keen, sharp, poignant; piercing, penetrating, cutting, biting, stinging; indelible, deeply felt, deep-felt, strongly felt, keenly felt, heartfelt, Archaic, homefelt; moving, heart-moving, heart-rending, heart-breaking, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, soul-stirring; overpowering, overwhelming, overcoming, overmastering.
3. difficult, hard, over one's head, Inf. tough; complex, complicated, perplexed, Inf. tricky; intricate, involved, tangled, knotty, crabbed; deep, esoteric, recondite, abstruse, abstract, heavy, Sl. heavy-duty; impenetrable, incomprehensible, past or beyond comprehension, inscrutable, indecipherable; mystic, transcendental, cabalistic; occult, secret, hidden, cryptic, perdu; obscure, unclear, dark, dim, vague, nebulous; mysterious, arcane, inexplicable; puzzling, enigmatic, enigmatical.
4. sunken, sunk, plunging; deep-down, deep-set, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-sunk, deep-sunken; deep-reaching, down-reaching, deep-going.
5. complete, total, utter, absolute; thorough, thoroughgoing, downright, outright, out-and-out; pronounced, decided, positive, perfect, consummate, Inf. regular, Brit. Inf. proper; low, low-lying, depressed, abject, desperate, stark.
6. abysmal, yawning, cavernous; bottomless, fathomless, unfathomable, soundless.
profundity, n. 1. depth, deepness, profoundness; abstrusity, abstruseness, reconditeness, abstractness; impenetrability, impenetrableness, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness, inscrutability, inscrutableness, unknowableness; mysticity, mysticality, mysticalness, cabalism, occultness; obscurity, nebulousness; obfuscation, obscurantism, Inf. mumbo jumbo.
2. difficulty, difficultness, hardness; complexity, complicatedness, Inf. trickiness; intricacy, intricateness, tangledness, knottiness, crabbedness.
3. wisdom, wiseness, sagacity, sagaciousness; acumen, astuteness, penetration; erudition, learnedness.
4. abyss, chasm, cavity, pit, hole, hollow, shaft, well, crater, bottomless pit.
profuse, adj. 1. lavish, extravagant, excessive, exorbitant, inordinate, immoderate, profusive, beyond all bounds; uncalled for, unwarranted; extreme, superlative, overblown, overgrown, overmuch; overgener-ous, overliberal, overlavish, too much, too many.
2. wasteful, prodigal, profligate, wanton, dissipative; easy come, easy go; intemperate, incontinent, reckless; improvident, spendthrift, unthrifty, thriftless, pound-foolish, penny-wise and pound-foolish.
3. generous, liberal, free, munificent, bounteous, bountiful, unsparing, unstinting, unstinted, stintless; unselfish, openhanded, free-handed; magnanimous, big-hearted, large-hearted, greathearted, open-hearted, freehearted.
4. abundant, plentiful, plenteous, plenitudinous, Inf. plenty, fat, copious; ample, enough and to spare, enough and then some, more than enough, more than adequate; in quantity or quantities, in plenty, in profu-