profoundly

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profoundly (comparative more profoundly, superlative most profoundly)

(manner) With depth, meaningfully.
He thought and wrote profoundly.
(evaluative) Very importantly.
More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.
(degree) Deeply; very; strongly or forcefully.
From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
  In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

in a profound manner

deeply — see deeply