Word.ws English Dictionary

profundified

profundified is the simple past and past participle of profundify.

Meaning of profundify

Verb

profundify (third-person singular simple present profundifies, present participle profundifying, simple past and past participle profundified)

  1. (humorous, often) To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
    • But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?1821 May, “Hildebrand Snapdragon”, “Manchester versus 'Manchester Poetry'”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume IX, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood; T[homas] Cadell and W. Davies, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    profundicate

Questions about profundified

What is profundified the simple past and past participle of?
Profundified is the simple past and past participle of profundify.

Words near profundified in the dictionary

  1. profundaplasty
  2. profundicate
  3. profundicated
  4. profundicates
  5. profundicating
  6. profundified
  7. profundifies
  8. profundify
  9. profundifying
  10. profundities
  11. profunditude

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: profundified (page history and authors); profundify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “profundified.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/profundified. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.